Vector store indexing is currently not completing/hanging
OpenAI Developer Community
April 16, 2026
I’m seeing files hanging in in_progress for over an hour, and one finally completed with an error:
{
"id": "...",
"object": "vector_store.file",
"usage_bytes": 0,
"created_at": 1776293392,
"vector_store_id": "...",
"status": "failed",
"last_error": {
"code": "server_error",
"message": "An internal error occurred."
},
"chunking_strategy": {
"type": "static",
"static": {
"max_chunk_size_tokens": 800,
"chunk_overlap_tokens": 400
}
},
"attributes": {}
}
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