OpenAI Outage History

OpenAI users worldwide faced a brief outage with degraded performance, including errors generating responses and difficulty using apps across web and mobile. The incident appeared global based on scattered user reports spanning multiple regions and lasted about 27 minutes, during which some users experienced intermittent issues and reduced access to chat/completion features.

OpenAI experienced a disruption impacting ChatGPT conversations starting around Feb 11, 2026 4:31 PM UTC, making it difficult for users to start chats. The incident expanded to include the text-embedding-3-small API by Feb 12, 2026 2:42 PM UTC, with elevated errors and degraded performance reported worldwide. Users across regions encountered slow responses, timeouts, and under heavy load messages while generating content or creating embeddings. The outage persisted for roughly a day, from Feb 11, 2026 4:31 PM UTC to Feb 12, 2026 5:01 PM UTC.

OpenAI reported increased login errors for ChatGPT, preventing sign-in for many users for roughly two hours. The outage began at 10:41 PM UTC and was resolved by 12:42 AM UTC. Users described authentication failures and sign-in timeouts while attempting to access ChatGPT. OpenAI's status page documented the incident as 'Increased login errors for ChatGPT' and showed the ChatGPT / Login component moving from up to warn and back to up as the issue was investigated and resolved.

OpenAI issued two status updates during the incident, noting ongoing investigation and eventual recovery. User reports began around 10:45 PM UTC and continued through 12:00 AM UTC. The impact appeared limited to a small set of users rather than a service-wide outage.

OpenAI reported a brief degraded performance affecting ChatGPT Go, with users experiencing elevated errors during the incident. The issue impacted the ChatGPT / Conversations component and began at 8:11 PM UTC and was resolved by 9:02 PM UTC, lasting about 51 minutes. OpenAI issued two status updates during the event describing the issue and its resolution. The impact appeared limited to the affected service with a small volume of user reports.

OpenAI experienced elevated error rates in GPT-5.2 that degraded ChatGPT / Conversations for users globally. Reported symptoms included prompts not responding, errors in message streams, and pages failing to load. The incident began around Feb 10, 2026 4:47 PM UTC when the OpenAI status page indicated a degraded experience for the GPT-5.2 component, and lasted about 2 hours and 45 minutes until Feb 10, 2026 7:32 PM UTC when services returned to normal. The issue affected the ChatGPT / Conversations component and led to widespread user impact.

During the incident, OpenAI issued two official status updates describing the investigation and eventual resolution.

OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex experienced a temporary degradation beginning at 4:31 PM UTC as Codex Cloud faced issues tied to GitHub dependencies. Users reported problems loading ChatGPT on desktop and intermittent generation delays, indicating a partial outage affecting Codex Cloud components.

The incident lasted until 8:26 PM UTC (about 3 hours and 55 minutes). OpenAI issued two official status updates during the event, noting that Codex Cloud issues were tied to GitHub functionality due to outages in GitHub dependencies. Services returned to normal after GitHub dependencies stabilized, with ChatGPT and Codex returning to an up state. Reports from users in multiple regions described inconsistent performance during the window.

On 8:00 AM UTC, some users began reporting issues loading conversations in ChatGPT Conversations. OpenAI acknowledged the problem at 9:01 AM UTC with a note that mitigation had been applied and recovery was being monitored. The incident was short, with the status returning to full operation by 9:06 AM UTC. The brief degradation affected the ChatGPT Conversations component and the outage lasted about five minutes. The provider issued 2 status updates during the incident to communicate mitigation and recovery.

The disruption was quickly addressed via mitigation steps, and OpenAI confirmed restoration after the brief interruption. There is no indication of a regional pattern, and the service is now fully operational.

The outage began at 12:17 AM UTC and was resolved by 12:26 AM UTC, lasting about 9 minutes. OpenAI reported elevated errors across 13 ChatGPT components, including ChatGPT / Codex, ChatGPT / Voice mode, ChatGPT / GPTs, ChatGPT / Agent, ChatGPT / ChatGPT Atlas, ChatGPT / Connectors/Apps, ChatGPT / Search, ChatGPT / Conversations, ChatGPT / Image Generation, ChatGPT / Login, ChatGPT / Compliance API, ChatGPT / File uploads, and ChatGPT / Deep Research, leading to login difficulties and degraded functionality for many users. The incident coincided with a notable surge in user reports across the affected features used for chat, code generation, and content creation.

OpenAI experienced a brief outage affecting ChatGPT services for a portion of users. The incident began at Feb 4, 2026 5:41 PM UTC and was resolved by 6:01 PM UTC, lasting about 20 minutes. The disruption affected 13 ChatGPT components, including Codex, Voice mode, GPTs, Agent, Atlas, Connectors/Apps, Search, Login, Compliance API, File uploads, Conversations, Image Generation, and Deep Research. Users reported issues such as chats not loading, prompts failing, and errors like too many concurrent requests.

OpenAI acknowledged elevated errors on the status page and worked on a mitigation. The provider issued two status updates during the incident as it restored services. The outage appeared to impact a broad portion of the user base, with reports of degraded performance and failures across multiple features until services returned to normal.

OpenAI's ChatGPT experienced a widespread service disruption with elevated errors across ChatGPT services. Users reported issues loading chats, prompts failing, and slow or missing responses. The incident began with the first user reports at 5:15 PM UTC and affected 13 components including ChatGPT / Codex, ChatGPT / Voice mode, ChatGPT / GPTs, ChatGPT / Agent, ChatGPT / Atlas, ChatGPT / Connectors/Apps, ChatGPT / Search, ChatGPT / Login, ChatGPT / Compliance API, ChatGPT / File uploads, ChatGPT / Conversations, ChatGPT / Image Generation, and ChatGPT / Deep Research. The outage lasted about 46 minutes and was resolved by 6:01 PM UTC.

OpenAI acknowledged the issue on their status page at Feb 4, 2026 5:41 PM UTC with the note "ChatGPT Availability Impacted" and that a mitigation was being implemented. StatusGator logged an Early Warning Signal at Feb 4, 2026 5:15 PM UTC, indicating users were not loading or responding, and the signal ended at 5:59 PM UTC. The incident prompted two official status updates from OpenAI during the event. Observers noted a global pattern in user reports, indicating a widespread impact across many regions rather than a localized outage.