Outage report
OpenAI API outage on 21 Oct 2026
OpenAI API's status page reported an outage on 21 Oct 2026 from 14:19 UTC to 14:47 UTC (28 min), while api.openai.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
- OpenAI API’s status page
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//_01 Timeline
What happened, minute by minute
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OpenAI API's status page reported: Elevated FedRAMP API error rates for Astra and Sol
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Recovered: OpenAI reports it's working again
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Visitors’ problem reports
No visitor reported a problem with OpenAI API around this outage.
OpenAI API’s own account of incidents is on its status page: status.openai.com
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