Elevated errors with image generation

Summary

OpenAI says it saw elevated errors with image generation, identified the issue, and applied a mitigation. The provider now reports the incident as resolved, with all affected services operating normally as of 17:00 UTC on 2026-11-08.

Written by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5 from OpenAI's own updates.

What to do

• Check whether your product depends on OpenAI. Check your stack

  Paste a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide/stack to see every provider you depend on.

• Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 1h 49m it lasted.

  Anything that failed between 2026-11-08 15:11 UTC and 2026-11-08 17:00 UTC may need a replay.

• Subscribe to OpenAI's feed to hear about the next one first. RSS feed

  https://down.guide/feed?provider=openai works in Slack (/feed subscribe), Discord feed bots and any RSS reader.

Updates from OpenAI 3

1. identifiedNov 8, 2026, 3:11 PM UTC

   We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

   provider

2. monitoringNov 8, 2026, 3:43 PM UTC

   We’ve applied a mitigation and are monitoring the affected services to confirm recovery.

   provider

3. resolvedNov 8, 2026, 5:00 PM UTC

   All affected services are operating normally again. We’re sorry for the disruption, and we appreciate your patience.

   provider

Corrections

None so far.

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