OpenAI outage on May 2 A 103d 17h disruption
May 2, 01:45 PM → Aug 14, 07:00 AM · 103d 17h · high
A high-severity disruption affecting OpenAI services was detected by automated monitoring systems. The incident began on May 2, 2026. Services were fully restored on August 14, 2026.
Impact
This high-severity incident affected OpenAI services for approximately 103 days and 17 hours. During this period, automated signals indicated a disruption to service availability. No user-reported data, including specific issue types or impacted regions, was collected for this incident.
Incident timeline
- May 2, 01:45 PM
PulseWatch detected the incident from automated vendor and probe signals (high severity)
- May 2, 02:13 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 02:18 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 2, 02:23 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 02:33 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 2, 02:38 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 02:48 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 2, 02:53 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 03:03 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 2, 03:08 PM
Status updated: major issue
- Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Signals cleared — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 2, 01:45 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.