On August 31, 2026 at 22:27 UTC, OpenAI reported an incident affecting OpenAI API with a minor impact, per its official status page. The disruption lasted 20h 37m 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.”
Timeline
Official update history from OpenAI's status page.
- Identified We have identified an issue causing elevated latency for some Responses API requests. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- Monitoring We have applied a mitigation and are monitoring recovery.
- Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- Identified We have identified elevated latencies impacting Responses API on the US endpoint.
- Identified We are implementing the mitigation.
- Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered.
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.
Current ChatGPT Status
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