OpenAI incident: Elevated ChatGPT conversation and Responses API errors

1. resolvedOct 22, 2026, 08:50 UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

2. monitoringOct 22, 2026, 02:42 UTC

   This is impacting users in India, Japan, and Korea. We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

3. investigatingOct 22, 2026, 02:18 UTC

   This is impacting users in India, Japan, and Korea. We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

What APIStatus.watch saw

• Oct 22, 2026, 02:20 UTCoperational → degraded
• Oct 22, 2026, 08:55 UTCdegraded → operational

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