Request IDs and error tracing in production

Ryan Mitchell
Ryan MitchellJan 22, 2026

Tip for anyone running OpenAI API calls in production: always log the request ID from response headers.

response = client.chat.completions.with_raw_response.create(
    model="gpt-4o",
    messages=[...]
)

request_id = response.headers.get("x-request-id") print(f"Request ID: {request_id}")

parsed = response.parse()

When you contact OpenAI support about an issue, they can look up exactly what happened with this ID. Saved us hours of debugging.

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