OpenAI outage on April 29 — 106d 7h disruption
Apr 29, 11:30 PM → Aug 14, 07:00 AM · 106d 7h · high
An incident affecting OpenAI services was detected on April 29, 2026, at 23:30 UTC. The issue was resolved on August 14, 2026, at 07:00 UTC.
Impact
This high-severity incident affected OpenAI services for approximately 106 days and 7 hours. Detection was based solely on automated signals from the vendor's status page and synthetic probes. No user-reported data was collected for this incident, meaning no specific features, regions, or issue types were identified as being impacted by user reports.
Incident timeline
- Apr 29, 11:30 PM
PulseWatch detected the incident from automated vendor and probe signals (high severity)
- Apr 29, 11:53 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- Apr 30, 12:23 AM
Status updated: major issue
- Apr 30, 12:33 AM
Status updated: possible issue
- Apr 30, 12:38 AM
Status updated: major issue
- Apr 30, 12:48 AM
Status updated: possible issue
- Apr 30, 12:53 AM
Status updated: major issue
- Apr 30, 01:03 AM
Status updated: possible issue
- Apr 30, 01:08 AM
Status updated: major issue
- Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Signals cleared — incident resolved
Official updates
- Apr 29, 11:30 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.