Outage report

ChatGPT outage on 21 Oct 2026

ChatGPT's status page reported an outage on 21 Oct 2026 from 14:19 UTC to 14:47 UTC (28 min), while chatgpt.com kept answering our checks. The status page called it “Elevated FedRAMP API error rates for Astra and Sol”.

Started
21 Oct 2026, 14:19 UTC
Ended
21 Oct 2026, 14:47 UTC
Duration
28 min
Seen by
ChatGPT’s status page

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What happened, minute by minute

  1. ChatGPT's status page reported: Elevated FedRAMP API error rates for Astra and Sol

  2. Recovered: OpenAI reports it's working again

Our checks and visitors’ reports around it

Response time

13:49 UTC red: failed checks 15:17 UTC

Visitors’ problem reports

No visitor reported a problem with ChatGPT around this outage.

ChatGPT’s own account of incidents is on its status page: status.openai.com

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Full outage history

This is the only longer ChatGPT outage we have recorded so far.

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