Minor incident

OpenAI: Elevated error rates for gpt-5.6-luna API requests

Oct 21, 2026, 15:34 UTC

started

16:44 UTC

resolved

1 h 09 min

duration

Current status of OpenAI: Operational — live OpenAI status

Timeline

Oct 21, 2026, 15:34 UTC
identified
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
Oct 21, 2026, 15:47 UTC
monitoring
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
Oct 21, 2026, 16:44 UTC
resolved
All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Updates as published by OpenAI.

This was part of a wider event: 109 services reported incidents within the hour.

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