ChatGPT outage on October 14, 2026: Degraded performance in Codex and ChatGPT Work
OpenAI reported an incident affecting ChatGPT for 2 hours 47 minutes on 14 October 2026, from 07:05 to 09:53 UTC.
Resolved
Official incident reported by OpenAI
- Started
- 07:05
- 14 Oct 2026 UTC
- Resolved
- 09:53
- 14 Oct 2026 UTC
- Duration
- 2h 47m
- 2 hours 47 minutes
- Impact
- Minor
- as rated by OpenAI
- Updates
- 3
- posted by OpenAI
Timeline
All times UTC.
Official incident from OpenAI
Degraded performance in Codex and ChatGPT Work
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Official
Identified
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
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Official
Identified
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are still implementing the mitigation.
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Official
Resolved
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
"Official" rows are quoted from OpenAI's public status page, status.openai.com. Very long posts are shortened.
What our checkpoints saw
HostTracker's checkpoints, which test chatgpt.com from several locations, recorded no outage of 5 minutes or longer during this incident. A provider can report a problem that affects only some features, regions or accounts, which a check of the main address does not see. The live ChatGPT status shows what our checks see right now.
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