OpenAI incident: Ads POST /ads/* endpoints elevated error rates

1. resolvedOct 26, 2026, 18:30 UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

2. monitoringOct 26, 2026, 18:25 UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

3. identifiedOct 26, 2026, 18:19 UTC

   We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for POST /ads/* endpoints. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

What APIStatus.watch saw

• Oct 26, 2026, 18:19 UTCoperational → degraded
• Oct 26, 2026, 18:34 UTCdegraded → operational

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