OpenAI: Elevated error rates for gpt-5.6-luna API requests
Affected components: Chat CompletionsResponses
Timeline of updates
- identified
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services.
We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- monitoring
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- resolved
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Changes Rewindex caught on this incident
- Incident updated: Elevated error rates for gpt-5.6-luna API requests
- Incident updated: Elevated error rates for gpt-5.6-luna API requests
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First version captured
In the 2026-10-21 checkpoint, timestamped by FreeTSA and DigiCert on . Record hash
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In the 2026-10-21 checkpoint, timestamped by FreeTSA and DigiCert on . Record hash
cf8e3de48bcd1b97…Version 3 captured
In the 2026-10-21 checkpoint, timestamped by FreeTSA and DigiCert on . Record hash
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Impact, status and times are the vendor’s own, as last archived. View on status.openai.com (opens in new tab).
Cite this
Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by OpenAI, started 2026-10-21 15:34 UTC, resolved after 1.1 h, 3 update(s); edited after publishing.
- Title
- Elevated error rates for gpt-5.6-luna API requests
- Vendor
- OpenAI
- Date
- URL
- https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01M5FHKHPQJMSHCE2B2WDPZW2N
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