# Generation Failures: OpenAI  experiencing an outage

- Provider: [Vectara](https://down.guide/vectara)
- Level: confirmed
- Impact: Partial outage
- lasted 1h 42m
- started 2024-12-12 02:36 UTC
- Query
- id: DWN-c0819ba829
- Official page: https://stspg.io/qkf1rfmz6znx

## Updates from Vectara
### 2024-12-12 02:36 UTC: monitoring
Queries that depend on generation from OpenAI are experiencing elevated error rates. See https://status.openai.com/

### 2024-12-12 04:17 UTC: resolved
This incident has been resolved.

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