OpenAI outage on May 2 — 104-day disruption
May 2, 04:00 AM → Aug 14, 07:00 AM · 104d 2h · medium
An incident affecting OpenAI services was detected on May 2, 2026. This medium-severity disruption lasted approximately 104 days and 2 hours. The incident was resolved on August 14, 2026.
Impact
During the 104-day, 2-hour period of this medium-severity incident, OpenAI services experienced disruption. This incident was detected through automated signals, including the vendor's own 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 2, 04:00 AM
PulseWatch detected the incident from automated vendor and probe signals (medium severity)
- May 2, 04:28 AM
Status updated: possible issue
- Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Signals cleared — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 2, 04:00 AM
OpenAI status page acknowledged the incident.
View official source - Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Slow / unresponsive clustered from 2 sources across 10 signals. Suppressed 9 redundant alerts and flagged flapping behavior.