OpenAI Status · History · Incident #5673

RESOLVED

Elevated errors affecting ChatGPT

Major · Started Jul 19, 2026 · 2:49 PM

Duration

2h 15m
Severity

Major
Detection lead

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User reports

Peak 4/hr

Summary

Elevated errors affecting ChatGPT

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Started

Jul 19, 2026 · 2:49 PM
Resolved

Jul 19, 2026 · 5:05 PM
Duration

2h 15m
Severity

Major

Event timeline

How this incident unfolded

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Investigating
Jul 19 · 2:49 PM OpenAI

Some users are experiencing elevated errors when loading or continuing conversations in ChatGPT. We are investigating.
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Identified
Jul 19 · 3:01 PM OpenAI

We have identified the cause of elevated errors affecting ChatGPT conversations, Voice, and Work Mode. We are applying mitigations and monitoring recovery.
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Monitoring
Jul 19 · 3:04 PM OpenAI

We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
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Monitoring
Jul 19 · 4:55 PM OpenAI

Service has been restored and we are continuing to monitor.
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Resolved
Jul 19 · 5:05 PM OpenAI

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

User reports · incident window

Report volume over time

Hourly report count. Red bars mark the incident window.

Peak: 4 reports/hr

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