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Resolved Minor impact

On September 9, 2026 at 15:13 UTC, OpenAI reported an incident affecting ChatGPT with a minor impact, per its official status page. The disruption lasted 1h 8m 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

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Started
Resolved
Duration
1h 8m
Affected service
ChatGPT
Severity
Minor
Current state
Resolved

Timeline

Official update history from OpenAI's status page.

  1. Investigating We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
  2. Monitoring We have applied a mitigation and are monitoring the impacted services.
  3. 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.

Related incidents in the same services

Elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex · ChatGPT, Codex · Resolved The issue causing elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex has been resolved. Some Codex remote control users may need to pair their mobile device again following this incident.

Current ChatGPT Status

This incident has been added to the permanent outage archive. For the current live status, see Is ChatGPT down right now? — the status indicator updates automatically. For the methodology behind these incident records, see our monitoring methodology page.

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