# OpenAI: Elevated latency for some API requests

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-09-30 17:05 UTC · Resolved: 2026-09-30 20:35 UTC · Duration: 3.5 h
- Updates: 5 · Affected components: Chat Completions, Responses
- [Vendor status page: https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M3SMF1Q0TDCQVNYSXYG37QMR](https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M3SMF1Q0TDCQVNYSXYG37QMR)
- [Company: OpenAI](https://rewindex.com/company/openai.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **identified** 2026-09-30 17:05 UTC: We have identified that users are experiencing elevated latency for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- **identified** 2026-09-30 17:13 UTC: We have identified that users are experiencing elevated latency for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- **identified** 2026-09-30 17:51 UTC: We have implemented an initial mitigation and are seeing improvements in API latency. We are continuing to investigate the scope of the issue and apply additional mitigations as needed. Some requests to the Responses and Chat Completions APIs may still experience elevated latency or timeouts.
- **monitoring** 2026-09-30 18:21 UTC: We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- **resolved** 2026-09-30 20:35 UTC: All impacted services have now fully recovered.


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01M3SMF1Q0TDCQVNYSXYG37QMR · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01M3SMF1Q0TDCQVNYSXYG37QMR.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/companies/openai/incidents/01M3SMF1Q0TDCQVNYSXYG37QMR · Generated 2026-10-18T10:45:35.607Z