OpenAI outage on May 3 — 102d 14h disruption
May 3, 04:00 PM → Aug 14, 07:00 AM · 102d 14h · medium
An incident affecting OpenAI services was detected on May 3, 2026. The issue was resolved on August 14, 2026.
Impact
A medium-severity incident affecting OpenAI services was detected, lasting approximately 102 days and 14 hours. This disruption began on May 3, 2026, and concluded on August 14, 2026. During this period, automated monitoring indicated a service interruption. No user-report data was collected for this incident.
Incident timeline
- May 3, 04:00 PM
PulseWatch detected the incident from automated vendor and probe signals (medium severity)
- May 3, 04:28 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Signals cleared — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 3, 04:00 PM
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.