# OpenAI: Elevated errors with image generation

> Image generation does not work and users get errors. OpenAI reports that the incident is resolved. The outage lasted about 109 minutes.

- Provider: [OpenAI](https://outages.live/openai.md)
- Type: Incident
- State: Resolved
- Worst impact: Degraded performance
- Started: 2026-11-08 15:11 UTC
- Resolved: 2026-11-08 17:00 UTC (lasted 1 h 49 min)
- Official update: https://status.openai.com

## Updates from OpenAI

### resolved, 2026-11-08 17:00 UTC

All affected services are operating normally again. We’re sorry for the disruption, and we appreciate your patience.

### monitoring, 2026-11-08 15:45 UTC

We’ve applied a mitigation and are monitoring the affected services to confirm recovery.

### identified, 2026-11-08 15:12 UTC

We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.