OpenAI outage on May 2 103d 15h disruption
May 2, 03:00 PM → Aug 14, 07:00 AM · 103d 15h · medium
On May 2, 2026, OpenAI experienced a service disruption. The incident was detected by automated monitoring systems. Service was fully restored on August 14, 2026.
Impact
During a medium-severity incident affecting OpenAI services for approximately 103 days and 15 hours, automated monitoring systems detected a disruption. The incident began on May 2, 2026, and was resolved on August 14, 2026. No user-reported data was collected for this incident, as detection was solely through automated signals.
Incident timeline
- May 2, 03:00 PM
PulseWatch detected the incident from automated vendor and probe signals (medium severity)
- May 2, 03:23 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Signals cleared — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 2, 03:00 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.