OpenAI Status · History · Incident #6827

RESOLVED

ChatGPT Work seeing elevated errors and latency

Major · Started Aug 31, 2026 · 3:04 PM

  • Duration

    5h 23m

  • Severity

    Major

  • Detection lead

  • User reports

    Peak 2/hr

Summary

ChatGPT Work seeing elevated errors and latency

All impacted services have now fully recovered.


  • Started

    Aug 31, 2026 · 3:04 PM

  • Resolved

    Aug 31, 2026 · 8:28 PM

  • Duration

    5h 23m

  • Severity

    Major

Event timeline

How this incident unfolded

  • Identified

    Aug 31 · 3:04 PM OpenAI

    We have identified that users are experiencing elevated latency for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

  • Identified

    Aug 31 · 3:21 PM OpenAI

    We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. Plus users are particularly impacted, where Work mode is currently unavailable. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

  • Identified

    Aug 31 · 4:02 PM OpenAI

    User across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work. We are continuing to work on a mitigation.

  • Identified

    Aug 31 · 5:01 PM OpenAI

    User across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work. We We are continuing work on implementing a mitigation.

  • Identified

    Aug 31 · 5:52 PM OpenAI

    User across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work. We are continuing work on implementing a mitigation.

  • Identified

    Aug 31 · 7:29 PM OpenAI

    User across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work. We are continuing work on implementing a mitigation.

  • Monitoring

    Aug 31 · 8:01 PM OpenAI

    We have applied a mitigation and are monitoring recovery.

  • Resolved

    Aug 31 · 8:28 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: 2 reports/hr

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