OpenAI outage on May 3 — 103d 5h disruption
May 3, 01:00 AM → Aug 14, 07:00 AM · 103d 5h · high
An incident affecting OpenAI services was detected by automated monitoring systems. The disruption began on May 3, 2026. Services were fully restored on August 14, 2026.
Impact
A high-severity incident affecting OpenAI services was observed for approximately 103 days and 5 hours. This disruption was identified through automated signals, including the vendor's status page and synthetic probes. No user-reported data, such as specific issue types or affected regions, was collected for this incident.
Incident timeline
- May 3, 01:00 AM
PulseWatch detected the incident from automated vendor and probe signals (high severity)
- May 3, 01:23 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 3, 01:33 AM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 3, 01:38 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 3, 01:48 AM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 3, 01:53 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 3, 02:08 AM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 3, 02:23 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 3, 02:33 AM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 3, 02:38 AM
Status updated: major issue
- Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Signals cleared — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 3, 01:00 AM
OpenAI status page acknowledged the incident.
View official source - Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Slow / unresponsive clustered from 3 sources across 15 signals. Suppressed 14 redundant alerts and flagged flapping behavior.