Elevated latency in the Responses API
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Elevated latency in the Responses API OpenAI provides the API, ChatGPT, embeddings, images, and related AI services that many applications call directly.
resolved · 1 Sep 2026, 19:05 UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
monitoring · 1 Sep 2026, 18:09 UTC
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
identified · 1 Sep 2026, 17:36 UTC
We are implementing the mitigation.
identified · 1 Sep 2026, 15:15 UTC
We have identified elevated latencies impacting Responses API on the US endpoint.
monitoring · 1 Sep 2026, 01:46 UTC
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
monitoring · 31 Aug 2026, 23:13 UTC
We have applied a mitigation and are monitoring recovery.
identified · 31 Aug 2026, 22:27 UTC
We have identified an issue causing elevated latency for some Responses API requests. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
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20h 37m
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2h 51m
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