Elevated Error Rates For SSO Login

lowOpenAIJul 16, 2026 08:40

authentication

Authentication Issue

Summary

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Impact

minor

Timeline

Jul 16, 2026 08:36

[identified] We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

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+1h 23m

Jul 16, 2026 09:59

[investigating] We are investigating the issue for the listed services and seeing gradual recovery.

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+58m

Jul 16, 2026 10:57

[monitoring] We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

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+4h 26m

Jul 16, 2026 15:23

[resolved] All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Lessons Learned

⚠OpenAI has experienced 112 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to authentication have occurred 132 times across all providers in the past year. This is one of the most common failure categories in cloud infrastructure.

💡This incident is categorized as: Authentication Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.