OpenAI Outage History

OpenAI's ChatGPT / Conversations experienced elevated error rates starting at Oct 22, 2025 2:22 PM UTC, with users reporting login failures and chats not loading or generating responses. The incident lasted about 19 minutes and was resolved by Oct 22, 2025 2:41 PM UTC. The issue affected the ChatGPT / Conversations component, causing degraded login and response performance for a subset of users.

OpenAI acknowledged the issue on their status page, noting elevated errors and ongoing mitigation, and posted 2 updates during the incident. The outage was brief and primarily impacted authentication and response generation for affected users, with service returning to normal after the updates.

OpenAI ChatGPT / Conversations experienced a brief outage with elevated error rates that prevented some users from receiving responses or loading chats. Reports from multiple regions described chats not loading, missing responses, or saved chats behaving abnormally. The incident began at 2:13 PM UTC and was resolved by 2:41 PM UTC, lasting about 28 minutes. OpenAI issued two status updates during the incident announcing elevated error rates and ongoing mitigation. StatusGator detected the issue at Oct 22, 2025 2:13 PM UTC, roughly 9 minutes before OpenAI's first acknowledgment.

OpenAI's API responses faced a brief degradation due to an elevated error rate, impacting the APIs / Responses component. The incident began at 23:51 UTC on 2025-10-21 and was resolved by 00:16 UTC on 2025-10-22, lasting about 25 minutes. The provider posted two status updates during the incident, noting that they were investigating the elevated error rate and subsequently confirming that services returned to normal.

The issues appeared to be limited to the API responses and did not indicate broader service outages. Users may have experienced errors or slower responses during the window, but service subsequently stabilized.

OpenAI experienced a Single Sign-On login disruption affecting sign-in to API services and ChatGPT. The issue prevented users from signing in via SSO for impacted components, specifically APIs / Login and ChatGPT / Login. The incident began at 8:43 AM UTC and was resolved by 10:11 AM UTC, lasting about 1 hour 28 minutes. OpenAI issued 2 status updates during the outage to communicate mitigation steps and restoration of access.

The incident was contained to the login flow and did not indicate a broader service impact beyond authentication, with full access restored after the updates.

The OpenAI Chat Completions and Responses APIs experienced a brief outage beginning at 12:46 AM UTC and ending at 1:11 AM UTC. The incident affected 2 components within OpenAI: APIs / Chat Completions and APIs / Responses, causing errors for users attempting to generate chat completions or standard responses. The outage lasted about 25 minutes before services were restored. OpenAI issued 2 status updates during the incident to communicate the issue and the resolution.

The outage affected OpenAI's chat functionality and message streaming, with users reporting errors in the message stream and unresponsiveness in the chat app. The disruption began at 12:56 PM UTC and ended at 1:42 PM UTC, lasting about 46 minutes. Reports came from users across multiple regions, indicating a broad, global impact on core messaging features.

There were no official OpenAI status updates posted during the incident. StatusGator detected the issue at Oct 14, 2025 12:56 PM UTC based on user reports, signaling an Early Warning Signal ahead of any OpenAI acknowledgment. With reports spanning regions worldwide, the disruption appeared global in scope and primarily affected chat and message streaming functionality.

The outage began on Oct 10, 2025 10:11 PM UTC with delays in supervised fine-tuning (SFT) jobs, impacting the APIs / Fine-tuning component. Over the next 47 hours, issues expanded to web chat and login workflows, with users reporting problems loading chat and logging in across multiple regions. The disruption affected three OpenAI components: APIs / Fine-tuning, ChatGPT / Connectors, and ChatGPT / Conversations, causing training delays and degraded chat experiences for many users.

OpenAI shared a series of updates on the status page, including mitigation steps and ongoing investigations. The incident involved six official status updates, documenting progress from investigation to mitigation and recovery. Key milestones included a partial Apps SDK Dev Mode outage around Oct 12, 2025 12:11 AM UTC, followed by web chat disruptions around Oct 12, 2025 12:46 AM UTC and subsequent mitigation by Oct 12, 2025 1:36 AM UTC. A renewed note at Oct 12, 2025 2:16 AM UTC indicated continued SFT delays before recovery. By Oct 12, 2025 9:41 PM UTC, the APIs / Fine-tuning component had recovered and the incident was returning to normal as reported across services. User reports came from multiple regions, indicating broad impact on login, chat, and model-training workflows.

From 3:51 PM UTC OpenAI began observing elevated error rates and degraded performance across multiple components, including APIs / Responses, APIs / Realtime, APIs / Images, and several ChatGPT modules such as Image Generation, Deep Research, Agent, Codex, along with Login and Sora Image Generation. Users encountered errors, timeouts, and slow responses when invoking APIs or using ChatGPT workflows, with reports of login difficulties and content generation delays. The issue persisted for multiple days with gradual recoveries noted in status updates, affecting a wide range of OpenAI services.

OpenAI's ChatGPT chat service experienced an outage where users could not send or receive messages. Reports came in from multiple countries across Asia-Pacific, including the Philippines, New Zealand, Indonesia, Australia, Pakistan, and Thailand, indicating broad impact. StatusGator recorded an Early Warning Signal at Oct 6, 2025 7:36 AM UTC, suggesting user-reported issues before any OpenAI acknowledgment. The issue lasted roughly 22 minutes, with no OpenAI status updates posted during the incident.

OpenAI experienced a multi-service outage starting at Oct 2, 2025 8:41 PM UTC with elevated errors across Codex, Search, Agent, and custom GPTs. Over the following hours, several components were listed as degraded or unavailable, and users reported issues such as failed logins and inability to create new accounts. By Oct 3, 2025 1:46 AM UTC, most affected services had returned to normal operation. The incident involved a series of official updates (five in total) as OpenAI worked to mitigate and investigate the root cause. The outage appeared across multiple regions, with reports from places including Singapore, Denver, and Mascouche, indicating broad geographic impact. The outage lasted approximately 5 hours and 5 minutes.