ChatGPT outage on Oct 15, 2026

What happened

ChatGPT reported a partial outage starting Oct 15, 2026, 16:29 UTC, affecting Login. It was marked resolved at Oct 15, 2026, 18:56 UTC.

• The incident lasted 2h 27m from first report to resolution.
• ChatGPT had reported 7 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
• 11 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from ChatGPT

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Read ChatGPT's official incident report ↗

What our independent monitoring saw

Our independent monitoring of ChatGPT started after this incident, so this report is based on ChatGPT's status page.

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