OpenAI outage on May 2 103d 18h disruption
May 2, 12:30 PM → Aug 14, 07:00 AM · 103d 18h · high
An outage affecting OpenAI services was detected by automated monitoring. The incident began on May 2, 2026, at 12:30 UTC. Services were fully restored on August 14, 2026, at 07:00 UTC.
Impact
This incident, lasting 103 days and 18 hours, was categorized as high severity for OpenAI services. It was detected through automated signals, including the vendor's own status page and synthetic probes. No user reports were collected for this incident, and therefore no data on specific affected features, regions, or issue types is available from user feedback.
Incident timeline
- May 2, 12:30 PM
PulseWatch detected the incident from automated vendor and probe signals (high severity)
- May 2, 01:03 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 2, 01:08 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 01:23 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 2, 01:38 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 01:48 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 2, 01:53 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 02:03 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 2, 02:08 PM
Status updated: major issue
- Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Signals cleared — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 2, 12:30 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.