OpenAI outage on May 3 102d 16h disruption
May 3, 02:45 PM → Aug 14, 07:00 AM · 102d 16h · medium
An outage affecting OpenAI services was detected on May 3, 2026. Automated monitoring systems identified a disruption in service availability. The incident was resolved on August 14, 2026.
Impact
This incident involved a medium-severity disruption to OpenAI services, lasting approximately 102 days and 16 hours. The outage was detected through automated signals, including the vendor's status page and synthetic probes. No user-reported data was collected for this incident, and therefore no information regarding specific affected features, regions, or issue types is available from user reports.
Incident timeline
- May 3, 02:45 PM
PulseWatch detected the incident from automated vendor and probe signals (medium severity)
- May 3, 03:13 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 3, 03:28 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 3, 03:38 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Signals cleared — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 3, 02:45 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.