Outage
ChatGPT outage on October 20, 2026: what happened and how long it lasted
On October 20, 2026, OpenAI / ChatGPT had an outage between 17:35 and 17:35 UTC, about 1 min in total. The vendor posted 1 incident.
Timeline (UTC)
- OfficialOfficial incident posted: Authentication errors for some users
- OfficialOfficially resolved: Authentication errors for some users
Hourly measurements (UTC)
00:0012:0023:00
Was ChatGPT down on October 20, 2026?
On October 20, 2026, OpenAI / ChatGPT had an outage between 17:35 and 17:35 UTC, about 1 min in total. The vendor posted 1 incident.
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