OpenAI incident: Elevated errors affecting multiple products including ChatGPT (conversations), Image generations, Spaces and Pages, API rehydration, and Dots.

1. resolvedOct 6, 2026, 03:17 UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

2. monitoringOct 6, 2026, 02:44 UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

3. investigatingOct 6, 2026, 02:41 UTC

   We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in OpenAI's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

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