Elevated error rates with the invalid_prompt error code

lowOpenAIJul 29, 2026 01:00

api

API Issue

Summary

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Impact

minor

Timeline

Jul 29, 2026 00:55

[investigating] We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

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+44m

Jul 29, 2026 01:39

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

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+41m

Jul 29, 2026 02:20

[resolved] All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Lessons Learned

⚠OpenAI has experienced 131 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to api have occurred 832 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.