Outage report
OpenAI API outage on 23 Oct 2026
OpenAI API was down for 2 min on 23 Oct 2026, from 15:50 UTC to 15:52 UTC. Our checks failed to reach api.openai.com from Stockholm: Timeout after 10 s.
- Started
- 23 Oct 2026, 15:50 UTC
- Ended
- 23 Oct 2026, 15:52 UTC
- Duration
- 2 min
- Seen by
- Our checks from Stockholm
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//_01 Timeline
What happened, minute by minute
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Check from Stockholm failed: Timeout after 10 s
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Confirmed by a second check from Stockholm
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Recovered: confirmed by a second check from Stockholm
//_02 Measurements
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Response time
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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