ChatGPT Down — February 20, 2026 Outage Report

minorResolved

ChatGPT responses were significantly slower than normal with some requests timing out.

Started February 20, 2026 at 9:00 AMResolved February 20, 2026 at 10:00 AMDuration: 1h

Affected regions: Global

Incident Timeline

InvestigatingFebruary 20, 2026 at 9:00 AM

Elevated response times on ChatGPT.

IdentifiedFebruary 20, 2026 at 9:30 AM

Traffic spike exceeding autoscaling capacity.

ResolvedFebruary 20, 2026 at 10:00 AM

Additional capacity online. Response times normal.

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ChatGPT and the OpenAI API experienced significant degradation with elevated error rates and slow response times.