# AI API outages on October 22, 2026 (UTC)

Measured every 5 minutes from 4 regions. An outage is attributed to a provider only when it failed from 2+ regions at once and no other provider failed in the same minutes.

## Was the Gemini API (Google) down on October 22, 2026?

Yes, measured. 3 outage(s) attributed to Google: requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest failed from up to 3 of 4 regions at once while no other provider was failing, first at 12:01 UTC, at least 16 minutes observed in total. At least once Google's own host answered with an HTTP 5xx.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 06:41-07:01 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner us-central | >=20 min | 5 | unattributed |
| 12:01-12:01 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner | <5 min | 2 | provider_outage |
| 12:35-14:06 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=90 min | 18 | unattributed |
| 14:41-14:46 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east | >=5 min | 3 | provider_outage |
| 15:21-17:41 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=140 min | 26 | unattributed |
| 18:55-19:06 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | ap-tokyo sa-east us-central | >=10 min | 3 | provider_outage |
| 19:55-20:21 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | ap-tokyo sa-east us-central | >=26 min | 4 | unattributed |

Live status now: https://llmlatency.dev/provider/google

## Was the OpenAI API down on October 22, 2026?

Not by our measurements. No failure of OpenAI was seen from two or more regions at once. OpenAI's own status page opened 3 entries that day (self-reported, listed below).
- self-reported 02:18 UTC: Elevated ChatGPT conversation and Responses API errors (minor)
- self-reported 18:51 UTC: Degraded Performance of Dots on Enterprise (minor)
- self-reported 19:36 UTC: New Ad Accounts failing to provision admins (minor)

Live status now: https://llmlatency.dev/provider/openai

## Was the Claude API (Anthropic) down on October 22, 2026?

Not by our measurements. No failure of Anthropic was seen from two or more regions at once. Anthropic's own status page opened 1 entry that day (self-reported, listed below).
- self-reported 03:50 UTC: Elevated errors affecting Connectors (minor)

Live status now: https://llmlatency.dev/provider/anthropic

## Was the writer API down on October 22, 2026?

Not attributably. 1 multi-region failure(s) of writer coincided with failures of other providers, so the cause sat above writer and is not blamed on it.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 15:40-15:41 | host probes | eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | <5 min | 3 | unattributed |

Live status now: https://llmlatency.dev/provider/writer

Source: https://llmlatency.dev/incidents/2026-10-22 · CC BY 4.0