# OpenAI: Elevated latency in the Responses API

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-08-31 22:27 UTC · Resolved: 2026-09-01 19:05 UTC · Duration: 21 h
- Updates: 7 · Affected components: Responses
- [Vendor status page: https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M1CYZDD84XD0H56XNEV2PT98](https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M1CYZDD84XD0H56XNEV2PT98)
- [Company: OpenAI](https://rewindex.com/company/openai.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **identified** 2026-08-31 22:27 UTC: We have identified an issue causing elevated latency for some Responses API requests. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- **monitoring** 2026-08-31 23:13 UTC: We have applied a mitigation and are monitoring recovery.
- **monitoring** 2026-09-01 01:46 UTC: We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- **identified** 2026-09-01 15:15 UTC: We have identified elevated latencies impacting Responses API on the US endpoint.
- **identified** 2026-09-01 17:36 UTC: We are implementing the mitigation.
- **monitoring** 2026-09-01 18:09 UTC: We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- **resolved** 2026-09-01 19:05 UTC: All impacted services have now fully recovered.


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01M1CYZDD84XD0H56XNEV2PT98 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01M1CYZDD84XD0H56XNEV2PT98.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/companies/openai/incidents/01M1CYZDD84XD0H56XNEV2PT98 · Generated 2026-10-18T12:43:46.297Z