ChatGPT outage on October 6, 2026: what happened and how long it lasted

Timeline (UTC)

1. 07:03OfficialOfficial incident posted: Elevated Work Mode errors
2. 16:58OfficialOfficial incident posted: Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations
3. 17:58OfficialOfficial incident posted: Elevated error rates in Codex Cloud
4. 00:01OfficialOfficially resolved: Elevated error rates in Codex Cloud
5. 00:01OfficialOfficially resolved: Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations
6. 00:40OfficialOfficial incident posted: Elevated errors in API Platform login and administration APIs.
7. 01:35OfficialOfficially resolved: Elevated errors in API Platform login and administration APIs.
8. 02:10OfficialOfficially resolved: Elevated Work Mode errors
9. 02:41OfficialOfficial incident posted: Elevated errors affecting multiple products including ChatGPT (conversations), Image generations, Spaces and Pages, API rehydration, and Dots.
10. 03:17OfficialOfficially resolved: Elevated errors affecting multiple products including ChatGPT (conversations), Image generations, Spaces and Pages, API rehydration, and Dots.
11. 13:35OfficialOfficial incident posted: Elevated error rates in ChatGPT Go conversations
12. 14:40OfficialOfficially resolved: Elevated error rates in ChatGPT Go conversations
13. 15:45OfficialOfficial incident posted: Errors processing large PDFs in the Responses API
14. 17:15OfficialOfficial incident posted: Computer Use Is Experiencing Issues
15. 17:50OfficialOfficially resolved: Errors processing large PDFs in the Responses API
16. 20:00OfficialOfficially resolved: Computer Use Is Experiencing Issues

Hourly measurements (UTC)