Outage
ChatGPT outage on October 7, 2026: what happened and how long it lasted
On October 7, 2026, OpenAI / ChatGPT had an outage between 01:12 and 00:03 UTC, about 22.8 h in total. The vendor posted 5 incidents.
Timeline (UTC)
- OfficialOfficial incident posted: Workspace Agents Degraded and Responses Impacted
- OfficialOfficially resolved: Workspace Agents Degraded and Responses Impacted
- OfficialOfficial incident posted: Unable to create new ChatGPT Work threads in latest version of desktop app
- OfficialOfficially resolved: Unable to create new ChatGPT Work threads in latest version of desktop app
- OfficialOfficial incident posted: Dot in Codex may fail to create new threads
- OfficialOfficial incident posted: Degraded performance in Codex and Work mode: Dot turn failures, delayed responses, and reduced proactivity
- OfficialOfficially resolved: Dot in Codex may fail to create new threads
- OfficialOfficially resolved: Degraded performance in Codex and Work mode: Dot turn failures, delayed responses, and reduced proactivity
- OfficialOfficial incident posted: Elevated errors with GPT-5.6 Instant in FedRAMP workspaces
- OfficialOfficially resolved: Elevated errors with GPT-5.6 Instant in FedRAMP workspaces
Hourly measurements (UTC)
00:0012:0023:00
Was ChatGPT down on October 7, 2026?
On October 7, 2026, OpenAI / ChatGPT had an outage between 01:12 and 00:03 UTC, about 22.8 h in total. The vendor posted 5 incidents.
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