OpenAI incident: Elevated errors with GPT-5.6 Instant in FedRAMP workspaces

1. resolvedOct 8, 2026, 00:03 UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

2. monitoringOct 7, 2026, 23:48 UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery and no longer seeing any errors.

3. investigatingOct 7, 2026, 23:42 UTC

   We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

What APIStatus.watch saw

• Oct 7, 2026, 23:43 UTCoperational → degraded
• Oct 7, 2026, 23:48 UTCdegraded → operational

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OpenAI reported 35 incidents in the last 90 days, 7 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 59 min. See OpenAI's uptime and incident history