OpenAI outage on April 30 — 106-day disruption
Apr 30, 03:15 AM → Aug 14, 07:00 AM · 106d 3h · medium
An incident impacting OpenAI services was detected on April 30, 2026. This medium-severity disruption was identified through automated monitoring signals. Services were fully restored on August 14, 2026.
Impact
During the 106-day period from April 30 to August 14, 2026, OpenAI experienced a medium-severity service disruption. This incident was identified via automated monitoring and vendor status updates. No user-reported data was collected for this incident, therefore specific user-visible impacts such as affected features, regions, or issue types cannot be detailed from user reports.
Incident timeline
- Apr 30, 03:15 AM
PulseWatch detected the incident from automated vendor and probe signals (medium severity)
- Apr 30, 03:43 AM
Status updated: possible issue
- Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Signals cleared — incident resolved
Official updates
- Apr 30, 03:15 AM
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.