OpenAI outage on May 2 — 104d 5h disruption
May 2, 01:56 AM → Aug 14, 07:00 AM · 104d 5h · high
On May 2, 2026, OpenAI experienced a high-severity service disruption. The incident was detected by automated monitoring systems. Service was fully restored on August 14, 2026.
Impact
During the 104-day, 5-hour high-severity disruption, the OpenAI service experienced an outage. This incident was detected through automated signals, including the vendor's own status page and synthetic probes. No user-reported data, such as specific issue types or impacted regions, was collected for this incident. Therefore, the user-visible impact cannot be determined from user reports.
Incident timeline
- May 2, 01:56 AM
PulseWatch detected the incident from automated vendor and probe signals (high severity)
- Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Signals cleared — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 2, 01:56 AM
OpenAI status page acknowledged the incident.
View official source - Aug 14, 07:00 AM
API issues clustered from 2 sources across 10 signals. Suppressed 9 redundant alerts and flagged flapping behavior.