On October 22, 2026 at 02:18 UTC, OpenAI reported an incident affecting ChatGPT and OpenAI API with a minor impact, per its official status page. The disruption lasted 6h 32m 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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Timeline
Official update history from OpenAI's status page.
- Investigating This is impacting users in India, Japan, and Korea. We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
- Monitoring This is impacting users in India, Japan, and Korea. 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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