Global IT infrastructure status

OPENAI

🟢 Operational

Degraded performance in ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs

Resolved

Started
2026-10-21 02:27 UTC
16 days ago
Last update
2026-10-21 03:28 UTC
16 days ago
Duration
20m

Timeline

  1. 21 Oct · 03:28 UTC 🟡 Resolved atom

    Status: Resolved

    All impacted services have now fully recovered.

    Affected components

    File uploads (Operational)
    Images (Operational)
    Audio (Operational)
    Embeddings (Operational)
    Space (Operational)
    Voice mode (Operational)
    Agents (Operational)
    Live (Operational)
    Login (Operational)
    Conversations (Operational)
    Chat Completions (Operational)
    Responses (Operational)
    Sites (Operational)
    Realtime (Operational)
    Files (Operational)
    Agent (Operational)
    Login (Operational)
    Codex Web (Operational)
    ChatGPT Work (Operational)
    Search (Operational)
    Batch (Operational)
    Fine-tuning (Operational)
    CLI (Operational)
    Codex in ChatGPT Desktop (Operational)
    dots (Operational)
    Decisions (Operational)
    Compliance API (Operational)
    Codex API (Operational)
    Moderations (Operational)
    Image Generation (Operational)
    Connectors/Apps (Operational)
    GPTs (Operational)
    Deep Research (Operational)

  2. 21 Oct · 02:48 UTC 🟡 Resolved atom

    Status: Resolved

    All impacted services have now fully recovered.

    Affected components

    Voice mode (Operational)
    Batch (Operational)
    Chat Completions (Operational)
    Compliance API (Operational)
    Connectors/Apps (Operational)
    Codex in ChatGPT Desktop (Operational)
    Codex API (Operational)
    Search (Operational)
    Responses (Operational)
    Sites (Operational)
    Audio (Operational)
    Deep Research (Operational)
    Codex Web (Operational)
    Images (Operational)
    Image Generation (Operational)
    CLI (Operational)
    Space (Operational)
    Live (Operational)
    Agent (Operational)
    Login (Operational)
    ChatGPT Work (Operational)
    File uploads (Operational)
    GPTs (Operational)
    Decisions (Operational)
    Fine-tuning (Operational)
    Realtime (Operational)
    Embeddings (Operational)
    Conversations (Operational)
    Files (Operational)
    Moderations (Operational)
    dots (Operational)
    Agents (Operational)
    Login (Operational)

  3. 21 Oct · 02:27 UTC 🟡 Monitoring atom

    Status: Monitoring

    We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

    Affected components

    Codex API (Degraded performance)
    Sites (Degraded performance)
    Decisions (Degraded performance)
    Search (Degraded performance)
    Codex Web (Degraded performance)
    ChatGPT Work (Degraded performance)
    Conversations (Degraded performance)
    Batch (Degraded performance)
    Responses (Degraded performance)
    Image Generation (Degraded performance)
    CLI (Degraded performance)
    Login (Degraded performance)
    Chat Completions (Degraded performance)
    Agent (Degraded performance)
    dots (Degraded performance)
    File uploads (Degraded performance)
    Realtime (Degraded performance)
    Compliance API (Degraded performance)
    Deep Research (Degraded performance)
    Connectors/Apps (Degraded performance)
    Login (Degraded performance)
    Agents (Degraded performance)
    Images (Degraded performance)
    Audio (Degraded performance)
    Embeddings (Degraded performance)
    Codex in ChatGPT Desktop (Degraded performance)
    Live (Degraded performance)
    Voice mode (Degraded performance)
    Fine-tuning (Degraded performance)
    Files (Degraded performance)
    GPTs (Degraded performance)
    Space (Degraded performance)
    Moderations (Degraded performance)

Source

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