OpenAI outage on May 2 — 103d 14h disruption
May 2, 04:15 PM → Aug 14, 07:00 AM · 103d 14h · medium
An incident affecting OpenAI services was detected on May 2, 2026. This issue resulted in a medium severity disruption. Services were fully restored on August 14, 2026.
Impact
During the incident, OpenAI services experienced a medium severity disruption lasting approximately 103 days and 14 hours. This disruption was identified through automated monitoring and vendor status updates. No user-reported data was collected for this incident, and therefore, specific affected features, regions, or issue types based on user reports are not available.
Incident timeline
- May 2, 04:15 PM
PulseWatch detected the incident from automated vendor and probe signals (medium severity)
- May 2, 04:43 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 2, 05:38 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 05:48 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Signals cleared — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 2, 04:15 PM
OpenAI status page acknowledged the incident.
View official source - Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Slow / unresponsive clustered from 3 sources across 16 signals. Suppressed 15 redundant alerts and flagged flapping behavior.