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Elevated errors affecting ChatGPT Work mode

Partial outage Lasted 1h 21m · started · OpenAI's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Partial outage
Components
ChatGPT Work
Down Index
29of 100

What to do

  • Check whether you use OpenAI ChatGPT Work. Check your stack

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    Anything that failed between 2026-09-17 19:03 UTC and 2026-09-17 20:24 UTC may need a replay.
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Updates from OpenAI 4

  1. investigating

    We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Some users may experience failures when starting or running Work tasks.

    provider

  2. investigating

    We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

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  3. identified

    We are still implementing the mitigation.

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  4. resolved

    All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about DWN-45e7d7b843

Is OpenAI still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-09-17 20:24 UTC. For OpenAI's live state, see https://down.guide/openai.

How long did it last?

1h 21m, from 2026-09-17 19:03 UTC to 2026-09-17 20:24 UTC, by the times OpenAI posted.

What was affected?

OpenAI named ChatGPT Work.

What caused it?

OpenAI hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.

Where does this come from?

OpenAI's official status page, https://status.openai.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.