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Critical outage reported

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As of 03:35 UTC on 12 November 2026, OpenAI's status page reports a critical outage.

Last problem: Going on now
Problems, last 30 days: 23 (1 critical)
Typical incident: 1 h 50 min
Longest in 90 days: 2 days · 9 Oct

Unable to start new Workspace Agent runs

Started 5 hours ago, affecting Agent.

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Uptime

OpenAI, last 30 days

85.73 %

Oct 14 Today

Biggest dip: OpenAI, 41.7 h of issue on Oct 14.

Incidents

Started in the last 7 days

FSSMTWToday

This week Week before

Latest: OpenAI, critical on Nov 11.

Recovery

Median time back online

1 h 42 min

30 days ago Today

9 of 22 were over within an hour. Each dot is one incident; the dashed line is the median.

Components 37

1 with issues

Chat Completions
Responses
Agents
Decisions
Fine-tuning
Embeddings
Images
Batch
Audio
Moderations
Realtime
Files
Login
Live
Conversations
Login
ChatGPT Work
Codex in ChatGPT Desktop
Compliance API
Search
File uploads
Voice mode
GPTs
Image Generation
Deep Research
Agent Critical
dots
Space
Sites
Connectors/Apps
Codex Web
Codex API
CLI
VS Code extension
FedRAMP
Ads Manager
Ads API

Last 90 days

36 incidents in 49 days tracked · no reported issues 74.3% of the time · typical incident 1 h 50 min

Aug 15 Today (UTC)

Recent incidents

Times in UTC

Nov 11
· 20:47
Issue
Elevated errors affecting logins, sign-ups, and ChatGPT features 6 min
Nov 9
· 23:08
Issue
Elevated Errors On API 43 min
Nov 9
· 18:17
Issue
Elevated ChatGPT Conversation Errors 52 min
Nov 8
· 15:11
Issue
Image generation experiencing elevated error rates and 1 more 1 h 50 min
Nov 5
· 15:25
Issue
ChatGPT Errors and 2 more 13 h 6 min
Nov 4
· 22:38
Issue
Elevated error rates across paid ChatGPT plans 1 h 55 min
Nov 3
· 00:47
Issue
File upload errors in ChatGPT 4 h 52 min
Oct 30
· 19:39
Issue
Elevated errors with search in Dots, ChatGPT Work, and certain ChatGPT thinking experiences 1 h 35 min
Oct 30
· 14:35
Issue
Elevated errors for GPT Image 2 API image edits 4 h 2 min
Oct 28
· 03:41
Issue
Degraded Performace on ChatGPT Work 24 min

All incidents on status.openai.com ↗

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Where this comes from

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