OpenAI API incident

We are seeing elevated error rates across API models

Resolved after 21 min.

Started: Sep 17, 2026, 21:29 UTC
Ended: Sep 17, 2026, 21:50 UTC
Worst state: Degraded
On OpenAI API’s status page: Sep 17, 2026, 21:29 UTC Source
Components: Audio, Batch, Chat Completions, Embeddings, Files, Fine-tuning, Images, Login, Moderations, Realtime, Responses

Timeline

20:20 UTC OpenAI API status page · Identified We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
21:20 UTC OpenAI API status page · Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
21:29 UTC OpenAI API status page · Reported We are seeing elevated error rates across API models
21:50 UTC OpenAI API status page · Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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