Elevated errors for API image generation

highOpenAIJul 21, 2026 19:35

computeapi

Capacity IssueAPI Issue

Summary

Image generation functionality has fully recovered, and error rates have returned to normal levels.

Impact

major

Timeline

Jul 21, 2026 19:33

[investigating] We are investigating elevated error rates affecting image generation requests via the API. We are working to restore normal service.

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+53m

Jul 21, 2026 20:26

[monitoring] We have applied mitigations and are seeing error rates return to normal levels. We are monitoring the recovery.

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+1h 53m

Jul 21, 2026 22:19

[resolved] Image generation functionality has fully recovered, and error rates have returned to normal levels.

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Lessons Learned

⚠OpenAI has experienced 115 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to compute, api have occurred 824 times across all providers in the past year. This is one of the most common failure categories in cloud infrastructure.

💡This incident is categorized as: Capacity Issue, API Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.