OpenAI Outage History

OpenAI ChatGPT / Agent experienced elevated error rates, causing user-facing issues such as resource not found. The incident began at 10:51 PM UTC and lasted approximately 4 hours and 11 minutes, with the service returning to normal by 3:02 AM UTC. The issue affected the ChatGPT / Agent component, indicating a degraded experience rather than a full outage.

OpenAI's ChatGPT / Agent experienced degraded performance due to elevated error rates starting at Aug 15, 2025 8:46 PM UTC and lasting for about 1 hour and 55 minutes until Aug 15, 2025 10:41 PM UTC. Users interacting with ChatGPT / Agent may have seen errors or slower responses during this period. The issue was isolated to the ChatGPT / Agent component, and OpenAI pursued mitigation.

OpenAI's status updates confirmed the incident, noting elevated errors and ongoing mitigation, with two official updates issued during the incident, and the service returned to normal by Aug 15, 2025 10:41 PM UTC.

The incident affected OpenAI's ChatGPT connectors and Codex services, with Plus and Pro users experiencing elevated errors when using the Use connectors tool. Some users reported that the connectors could be inaccessible or partially unavailable for certain workflows. The problem began at 5:41 PM UTC and persisted for about 14 hours, ending with restoration by 7:41 AM UTC.

OpenAI's Compliance API experienced a brief degradation as users encountered increased errors when invoking the service. The issue began at Aug 13, 2025 6:41 PM UTC and was resolved by Aug 13, 2025 7:31 PM UTC, lasting roughly 50 minutes. The incident affected the Compliance API component and caused errors for a subset of requests during the window. OpenAI posted two official status updates during the incident describing the investigation and subsequent resolution. User reports were limited, indicating the impact was not widespread.

OpenAI reported a brief degradation in the ChatGPT / Image Generation service. Users attempting image generation could have seen errors during the incident window. The issue began at Aug 13, 2025 6:41 AM UTC and was resolved by Aug 13, 2025 7:06 AM UTC, lasting about 25 minutes, before service returned to normal. The affected component was ChatGPT / Image Generation.

OpenAI experienced a brief incident affecting the ChatGPT Image Generation service for free-tier users. The outage began at 12:06 PM UTC and was resolved by 12:21 PM UTC. Free ChatGPT users reported elevated errors when generating images during this window. OpenAI communicated the issue via its status page, noting a mitigation was implemented and the service returned to normal once the fix was in place. StatusGator observed user observations but the volume remained limited. The affected component was ChatGPT / Image Generation, and the incident lasted roughly 15 minutes.

OpenAI experienced a partial outage impacting ChatGPT search and related API endpoints, causing elevated errors and slower responses for prompts that triggered web search and for certain Codex tasks. The outage began at Aug 11, 2025 3:56 PM UTC and was resolved by Aug 11, 2025 10:07 PM UTC, lasting roughly 6 hours and 11 minutes. OpenAI issued four status updates during the incident detailing the progression and the mitigation efforts as engineers worked to restore services. By the time services were restored, the affected search and Codex-related paths were back to normal.

OpenAI's ChatGPT / Conversations experienced a brief outage caused by rate limit or model not found errors in GPT 5, affecting user conversations. The issue lasted about 5 minutes, starting at 7:11 PM UTC and ending at 7:16 PM UTC, with some users encountering errors when interacting with GPT-5 features. OpenAI implemented mitigation and began monitoring the recovery.

OpenAI’s chat and project loading features faced a brief outage, with users reporting chats and projects not loading or responding. The incident began at 5:37 PM UTC and ended at 6:30 PM UTC, lasting about 53 minutes and affecting users globally (reports from North America, Europe, and the Caribbean). StatusGator detected the issue at Aug 8, 2025 5:37 PM UTC, ahead of any official acknowledgment, while OpenAI did not publish status updates during the window.

The OpenAI ChatGPT search feature experienced a partial outage affecting free-tier users. The incident began at 10:46 AM UTC and was resolved by 6:11 PM UTC, lasting roughly 7 hours and 25 minutes. During this window, users reported that searches did not respond or returned errors, with reports coming from multiple regions. The issue impacted the ChatGPT / Search component and likely affected the ability to quickly locate information within ChatGPT.

OpenAI's status page documented the incident under ChatGPT / Search as a degraded service, with 2 official updates issued during the incident. The service was restored to normal after the final update at 6:11 PM UTC. Based on user reports, the impact appeared global rather than region-specific.