OpenAI outage, 21 October 2026

Elevated error rates for gpt-5.6-luna API requests

Started
Resolved
21 Oct 2026, 16:44 UTC (after 1 h 9 min)
Impact
Minor

Is this still happening?

No. OpenAI marked this incident resolved on 21 Oct 2026, 16:44 UTC, 1 h 9 min after it began.

Right now: OpenAI reports all systems operational. (as of 26 Oct, 03:45 UTC) Live OpenAI status

Last update from OpenAI

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

21 Oct 2026, 16:44 UTC

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