OpenAI outage on April 30 — 106-day disruption
Apr 30, 02:00 AM → Aug 14, 07:00 AM · 106d 4h · medium
An incident affecting OpenAI services was detected on April 30, 2026, at 02:00 UTC. The issue was identified through automated monitoring signals. Services were fully restored on August 14, 2026, at 07:00 UTC.
Impact
A medium-severity incident affecting OpenAI services was detected, lasting approximately 106 days and 4 hours. This disruption was identified through automated signals, including the vendor's status page and synthetic probes. During this period, no user-reported data was collected regarding specific features, regions, or issue types. The incident's impact was assessed based solely on the automated monitoring data.
Incident timeline
- Apr 30, 02:00 AM
PulseWatch detected the incident from automated vendor and probe signals (medium severity)
- Apr 30, 02:23 AM
Status updated: possible issue
- Apr 30, 02:43 AM
Status updated: major issue
- Apr 30, 02:53 AM
Status updated: possible issue
- Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Signals cleared — incident resolved
Official updates
- Apr 30, 02:00 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.