OpenAI outage on May 3 102d 17h disruption
May 3, 01:30 PM → Aug 14, 07:00 AM · 102d 17h · medium
A service disruption affecting OpenAI was detected by automated monitoring systems. The incident began on May 3, 2026, and was resolved on August 14, 2026.
Impact
A medium-severity service disruption affected OpenAI for approximately 102 days and 17 hours. This incident was detected through automated signals, including the vendor's own status page and synthetic probes. No user-reported data, including specific features, regions, or issue types, was collected for this incident.
Incident timeline
- May 3, 01:30 PM
PulseWatch detected the incident from automated vendor and probe signals (medium severity)
- May 3, 01:53 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Signals cleared — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 3, 01:30 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.