Elevated errors deploying Sites

Resolved Minor impact

On August 18, 2026 at 19:17 UTC, OpenAI reported an incident affecting OpenAI Services with a minor impact, per its official status page. The disruption lasted 20 minutes and the incident has been fully resolved. IsChatGPTDown.chat mirrors this incident from OpenAI's official record; see the official link below for authoritative details.

Incident Facts

All facts below are taken from OpenAI's official incident record. Fields OpenAI did not publish are shown as “Not provided.”

Started
Resolved
Duration
20 minutes
Affected service
OpenAI Services
Severity
Minor
Current state
Resolved

Timeline

Official update history from OpenAI's status page.

  1. Identified We have identified an issue causing elevated errors when deploying Sites. We are working to implement a mitigation.
  2. Monitoring We have implemented a mitigation for the issue affecting site deployments and are monitoring the results.
  3. Resolved The issue affecting site deployments has been resolved.

Related troubleshooting

The affected services are listed above from OpenAI's official record. If you run into a similar problem, the guides below help you check whether it is a current outage or an issue limited to your setup.

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Current ChatGPT Status

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