ChatGPT outage on Oct 9, 2026

What happened

ChatGPT reported a partial outage starting Oct 9, 2026, 21:00 UTC, affecting Conversations. It was marked resolved at Oct 10, 2026, 00:26 UTC.

• The incident lasted 3h 26m from first report to resolution.
• It was the 3rd longest of 4 significant outages ChatGPT reported in the 12 months up to it.
• ChatGPT had reported 5 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
• 4 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.

Other outages around the same time

Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.

• Partial outageCircleCIOct 9, 2026, 11:33 UTC

  Delay in data appearing in UI and API

• Major outageTiger Data (Timescale)Oct 9, 2026, 16:24 UTC

  Tiger Cloud Databases running on Azure West Europe Region

• Partial outageImpervaOct 9, 2026, 22:16 UTC

  [INC-1158] Service Degradation of Dallas, TX (DAL) PoP

• Partial outageShippoOct 10, 2026, 06:42 UTC

  Elevated error rate on DPD Germany Tracking

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