OpenAI outage on May 2 103d 13h disruption
May 2, 05:30 PM → Aug 14, 07:00 AM · 103d 13h · high
An incident affecting OpenAI services was detected by automated monitoring. This high-severity incident began on May 2, 2026, and was resolved on August 14, 2026.
Impact
During the 103-day and 13-hour period from May 2, 2026, to August 14, 2026, OpenAI services experienced a high-severity incident. This disruption was identified through automated signals, including the vendor's status page and synthetic probes. No user-reported data was collected for this incident, meaning there were no records of specific user-reported issues, affected regions, or report volumes. The impact was assessed based solely on the automated monitoring data.
Incident timeline
- May 2, 05:30 PM
PulseWatch detected the incident from automated vendor and probe signals (high severity)
- May 2, 05:53 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 06:03 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 2, 06:08 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 06:18 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 2, 06:23 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 06:33 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 2, 06:38 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 06:48 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 2, 06:53 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 07:03 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 2, 07:08 PM
Status updated: major issue
- Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Signals cleared — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 2, 05:30 PM
OpenAI status page acknowledged the incident.
View official source - Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Slow / unresponsive clustered from 2 sources across 18 signals. Suppressed 17 redundant alerts and flagged flapping behavior.