OpenAI outage on April 30 — 106d 6h disruption
Apr 30, 12:45 AM → Aug 14, 07:00 AM · 106d 6h · medium
OpenAI experienced a service disruption starting on April 30, 2026. Automated monitoring systems detected an issue with the service. The disruption was resolved on August 14, 2026.
Impact
This incident was classified as medium severity and lasted for approximately 106 days and 6 hours. During this period, the OpenAI service experienced a disruption. No user-reported data was collected for this incident, as detection was based solely on automated signals.
Incident timeline
- Apr 30, 12:45 AM
PulseWatch detected the incident from automated vendor and probe signals (medium severity)
- Apr 30, 01:13 AM
Status updated: major issue
- Apr 30, 01:23 AM
Status updated: possible issue
- Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Signals cleared — incident resolved
Official updates
- Apr 30, 12:45 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.