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ChatGPT Major Outage - August 31, 2026

Provider incident title: “ChatGPT Work seeing elevated errors and latency

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Started

Monday, August 31, 2026

03:04 PM UTC

Duration

5h 23m

total

Resolved

08:28 PM UTC

Aug 31, 2026

Severity: Major Outage|Affected: ChatGPT|Duration: 5h 23m

Incident Timeline8 updates · oldest first

03:04 PM UTCIdentified

We have identified that users are experiencing elevated latency for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

03:21 PM UTCIdentified

We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. Plus users are particularly impacted, where Work mode is currently unavailable. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

04:02 PM UTCIdentified

User across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work. We are continuing to work on a mitigation.

05:01 PM UTCIdentified

User across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work. We We are continuing work on implementing a mitigation.

05:52 PM UTCIdentified

User across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work. We are continuing work on implementing a mitigation.

07:29 PM UTCIdentified

User across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work. We are continuing work on implementing a mitigation.

08:01 PM UTCMonitoring

We have applied a mitigation and are monitoring recovery.

08:28 PM UTCResolved

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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This incident was sourced from ChatGPT's official Atlassian Statuspage. Tickerr ingests updates every 10 minutes to surface incidents as they are posted by the provider.

This incident lasted 5h 23m.

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