OpenAI incident: Elevated errors affecting logins, sign-ups, and ChatGPT features

1. resolvedNov 11, 2026, 20:52 UTC

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

2. investigatingNov 11, 2026, 20:50 UTC

   We’re investigating an outage for logins, signups, work mode, dots, sites, and spaces. We are also investigating elevated error rates when creating conversations through the OpenAI API. We are checking how it affects users. We’ll share an update when we know more.

3. investigatingNov 11, 2026, 20:46 UTC

   We’re investigating an outage for logins, signups, work mode, dots, sites, and spaces. We are checking how it affects users. We’ll share an update when we know more.

4. investigatingNov 11, 2026, 20:43 UTC

   We’re investigating an outage for logins, signups, work mode, dots, sites, and spaces. We are checking how it affects users. We’ll share an update when we know more.

What APIStatus.watch saw

• Nov 11, 2026, 20:51 UTCoperational → degraded
• Nov 11, 2026, 20:56 UTCdegraded → operational

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