Elevated errors affecting ChatGPT

highOpenAIJul 19, 2026 14:50

api

API Issue

Summary

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Impact

major

Timeline

Jul 19, 2026 14:49

[investigating] Some users are experiencing elevated errors when loading or continuing conversations in ChatGPT. We are investigating.

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+11m

Jul 19, 2026 15:01

[identified] We have identified the cause of elevated errors affecting ChatGPT conversations, Voice, and Work Mode. We are applying mitigations and monitoring recovery.

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+3m

Jul 19, 2026 15:04

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

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+1h 51m

Jul 19, 2026 16:55

[monitoring] Service has been restored and we are continuing to monitor.

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+10m

Jul 19, 2026 17:05

[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 api have occurred 740 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: API Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.