OpenAI incident: Elevated ChatGPT Conversation Errors

1. resolvedNov 9, 2026, 19:08 UTC

   All affected services are operating normally again. We’re sorry for the disruption, and we appreciate your patience.

2. monitoringNov 9, 2026, 18:16 UTC

   We’ve applied a mitigation and are monitoring the affected services to confirm recovery.

What APIStatus.watch saw

• Nov 9, 2026, 18:21 UTCoperational → degraded
• Nov 9, 2026, 19:11 UTCdegraded → operational

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