Elevated API error rates and latency on gpt-image-2 model

lowOpenAIJul 24, 2026 00:00
api
API Issue

Summary

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Impact

minor

Timeline

Jul 23, 2026 23:56

[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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Jul 24, 2026 00:09

[resolved] All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Lessons Learned

OpenAI has experienced 122 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to api have occurred 786 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: API Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.