ChatGPT, API and Sora down for about four hours
A new telemetry service deployment overwhelmed OpenAI's Kubernetes control plane, taking ChatGPT, the API and Sora offline for around four hours.
- Service
- ChatGPT (OpenAI)
- Date
- 11 December 2024
- Cause
- Configuration change
- Duration
- 4 hours
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- ThousandEyes ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “ChatGPT, API and Sora down for about four hours”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 11 Dec 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-12-11-chatgpt-openai-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: ThousandEyes, https://thousandeyes.com/blog/top-internet-outages-2024.
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