Some users are experiencing increased latency and error rates in ChatGPT

lowOpenAIJul 23, 2026 19:20
api
API Issue

Summary

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

Impact

minor

Timeline

Jul 23, 2026 19:16

[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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Lessons Learned

OpenAI has experienced 122 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to api have occurred 785 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.