OpenAI outage, 26 October 2026

Elevated error rates for Ads POST requests

Started
Resolved
26 Oct 2026, 18:30 UTC (after 11 min)
Impact
Minor

Is this still happening?

No. OpenAI marked this incident resolved on 26 Oct 2026, 18:30 UTC, 11 min after it began.

Right now: OpenAI reports all systems operational. (as of 26 Oct, 19:41 UTC) Live OpenAI status

Last update from OpenAI

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

26 Oct 2026, 18:30 UTC

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