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ChatGPT Major Outage - July 21, 2026

Provider incident title: “Elevated errors for API image generation

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Started

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

07:33 PM UTC

Duration

2h 46m

total

Resolved

10:19 PM UTC

Jul 21, 2026

Severity: Major Outage|Affected: ChatGPT|Duration: 2h 46m

Incident Timeline3 updates · oldest first

07:33 PM UTCInvestigating

We are investigating elevated error rates affecting image generation requests via the API. We are working to restore normal service.

08:26 PM UTCMonitoring

We have applied mitigations and are seeing error rates return to normal levels. We are monitoring the recovery.

10:19 PM UTCResolved

Image generation functionality has fully recovered, and error rates have returned to normal levels.

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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 2h 46m.

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