OpenAI API incident
Elevated errors for image generation
Resolved after 7 h 26 min.
- Started
- Ended
- Worst state
- Degraded
- On OpenAI API’s status page
- Source
- Components
- Image Generation, Images
Timeline
- OpenAI API status page · Reported Elevated errors for image generation
- OpenAI API status page · Investigating We’re investigating elevated errors affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. Some requests may fail. We’ll share another update as we learn more.
- OpenAI API status page · Investigating We’re continuing to investigate elevated errors affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. We’ve made changes aimed at reducing failures and are assessing their effect. Some requests may still fail. We’ll share another update as we learn more.
- OpenAI API status page · Investigating "We’re continuing to investigate elevated errors affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. We saw an increase in failed Images API requests after our last update. We’re applying mitigations and assessing their effect. Some image requests may still fail. We’ll share another update as we learn more. "
- OpenAI API status page · Identified We have identified the issue affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. Some image-generation requests may continue to fail.
- OpenAI API status page · Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- OpenAI API status page · Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Cite this incident
Site Qwality, “Elevated errors for image generation,” Sep 8, 2026, https://siteqwality.com/is-openai-down/incidents/openai-202609081432/
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