Minor incident

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

Oct 7, 2026, 23:42 UTC

started

00:03 UTC

resolved October 8, 2026

21 min

duration

Current status of OpenAI: Operational — live OpenAI status

Timeline

Oct 7, 2026, 23:42 UTC
investigating
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
Oct 7, 2026, 23:48 UTC
monitoring
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery and no longer seeing any errors.
Oct 8, 2026, 00:03 UTC
resolved
All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Updates as published by OpenAI.

This was part of a wider event: 22 services reported incidents within the hour.

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Heap 23:20 UTC · User property data delayed in Heap connect syncs (US customers only)