OpenAI Status · History · Incident #6845

RESOLVED

Elevated latency in the Responses API

Minor · Started Aug 31, 2026 · 10:27 PM

Duration

20h 37m
Severity

Minor
Detection lead

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User reports

Peak 1/hr

Summary

Elevated latency in the Responses API

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Started

Aug 31, 2026 · 10:27 PM
Resolved

Sep 1, 2026 · 7:05 PM
Duration

20h 37m
Severity

Minor

Event timeline

How this incident unfolded

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Identified
Aug 31 · 10:27 PM OpenAI

We have identified an issue causing elevated latency for some Responses API requests. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
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Monitoring
Aug 31 · 11:13 PM OpenAI

We have applied a mitigation and are monitoring recovery.
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Monitoring
Sep 1 · 1:46 AM OpenAI

We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
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Identified
Sep 1 · 3:15 PM OpenAI

We have identified elevated latencies impacting Responses API on the US endpoint.
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Identified
Sep 1 · 5:36 PM OpenAI

We are implementing the mitigation.
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Monitoring
Sep 1 · 6:09 PM OpenAI

We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
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Resolved
Sep 1 · 7:05 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: 1 reports/hr

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