OpenAI outage on May 2 — 103d 12h disruption
May 2, 06:45 PM → Aug 14, 07:00 AM · 103d 12h · medium
An incident affecting OpenAI services was detected by automated monitoring systems. This medium-severity disruption lasted approximately 103 days and 12 hours. The issue was resolved on August 14, 2026.
Impact
During the 103-day and 12-hour period of this medium-severity incident, OpenAI services experienced a disruption. This incident was identified through automated signals and monitoring platforms. No user-reported data was collected for this specific incident, therefore no information regarding affected features, regions, or specific issue types from user reports is available.
Incident timeline
- May 2, 06:45 PM
PulseWatch detected the incident from automated vendor and probe signals (medium severity)
- May 2, 07:13 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 07:18 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 2, 07:23 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 07:38 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 2, 07:53 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 08:03 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 2, 08:08 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 08:18 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Signals cleared — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 2, 06:45 PM
OpenAI status page acknowledged the incident.
View official source - Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Slow / unresponsive clustered from 3 sources across 21 signals. Suppressed 20 redundant alerts and flagged flapping behavior.