OpenAI applies mitigation to elevated errors affecting ChatGPT services
OpenAI reported that it applied a mitigation and is monitoring recovery from elevated errors that impacted several ChatGPT‑related products on October 6, 2026. The incident record on the company’s status page listed five components—Conversations, ChatGPT Work, Image Generation, dots, and Space—as experiencing degraded performance, and the page was updated at 2:44 AM UTC to note the mitigation.
Key points
- OpenAI applied a mitigation at 2:44 AM UTC on October 6, 2026 for five ChatGPT components
- The incident affected Conversations, ChatGPT Work, Image Generation, dots, and Space with uptime between 99.79 % and 100 %
- Other ongoing incidents included Codex Cloud and Work Mode errors, both marked as mitigated and under monitoring
The status page also showed two other ongoing incidents: elevated error rates in Codex Cloud and elevated Work Mode errors, both marked as mitigated and under monitoring. Availability figures for the period July‑October 2026 show the ChatGPT group at 99.65 % uptime, with the five affected components ranging from 99.79 % to 100 % uptime. OpenAI noted that these metrics are aggregated across all tiers and models, and individual customer availability may vary.
Earlier incidents on October 5 and September 29 were listed as resolved, and OpenAI said a detailed root‑cause analysis for the September incident would be published within five business days.
OpenAI Mitigates Elevated Errors Across Multiple ChatGPT Services
Unite.AI · 6 October 2026
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