OpenAI reported "Elevated error rates for Ads POST requests" on its status page at 2026-10-26 18:19 UTC.

OpenAI did not name the affected components. The updates on this page have the details.

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It started at 2026-10-26 18:19 UTC and ended at 2026-10-26 18:30 UTC. It lasted 11 min.

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OpenAIIncident · 2026-10-26 18:19 UTC

Elevated error rates for Ads POST requests

ResolvedOfficial update

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

The latest update from OpenAI.

State

Resolved

Started

6 d ago

2026-10-26 18:19 UTC

Lasted

11 min

until 2026-10-26 18:30 UTC

Worst impact

Degraded

Timeline

3 updates

18:1918:2118:2418:2718:30

DegradedUpdate postedTimes in UTC

Identified

7 min 58%

Monitoring

5 min 42%

Updates

Times in UTC

As posted by OpenAI

Resolved2026-10-26 18:30 UTC

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Monitoring2026-10-26 18:25 UTC

We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

Identified2026-10-26 18:19 UTC

We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for POST /ads/* endpoints. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

OpenAI in the last 90 days

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Incidents in 90 days

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Median duration

1 h 51 min

This incident

90% shorter than the median

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median 1 h 51 min

90 days agoToday

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