ChatGPT outage on May 3 — 102d 22h disruption
May 3, 08:01 AM → Aug 14, 07:00 AM · 102d 22h · medium
On May 3, 2026, an outage affecting the ChatGPT service was detected due to an elevated volume of user reports. Users experienced disruptions to the service. The incident was resolved on August 14, 2026.
Impact
Users primarily reported issues with the ChatGPT service being slow or unresponsive. A smaller number of reports indicated problems with AI API functionality and general API issues. No specific regional impact was recorded during this incident.
Top reported issues
- Slow / unresponsive112
- AI API issues18
- API issues3
Incident timeline
- May 3, 08:01 AM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (medium severity)
- May 3, 08:23 AM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 3, 08:28 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 3, 08:38 AM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 3, 08:43 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 3, 08:53 AM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 3, 08:58 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 3, 09:08 AM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 3, 09:13 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 3, 09:23 AM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 3, 09:28 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 3, 09:38 AM
Status updated: possible issue
- Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 3, 08:01 AM
ChatGPT status page acknowledged the incident.
View official source - Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Slow / unresponsive clustered from 2 sources across 14 signals. Suppressed 13 redundant alerts and flagged flapping behavior.