OpenAI Outage History

The degradation began on Mar 15, 2025 6:21 PM UTC and affected 14 API components including Uploads, Files, Realtime, Responses, Moderations, Batch, Fine-tuning, Assistants, Audio, Embeddings, Images, Completions (legacy), Chat, and Compliance. Users reported intermittent connectivity, timeouts, and errors across multiple OpenAI services, with symptoms like upstream disconnects and pages failing to load. The issue appeared global and the degraded performance persisted for roughly 56 hours until recovery completed on Mar 18, 2025 2:36 AM UTC. OpenAI posted two official status updates during the incident, and user reports peaked around 7:45 PM UTC UTC, illustrating the breadth of impact during the event.

OpenAI's API/Chat experienced degraded performance beginning at 2:51 PM UTC and ending at 5:11 PM UTC, lasting about 2 hours and 20 minutes. Users could encounter prompts not executing or slower responses, with the API/Chat component being affected.

OpenAI posted two official status updates during the incident and confirmed recovery once the status returned to up.

OpenAI experienced a brief degraded performance across its API surface affecting 13 components, including Images, Embeddings, Batch, Audio, Realtime, Assistants, Files, Moderations, Fine-tuning, Uploads, Completions (legacy), Chat, and Compliance. The outage began at Mar 11, 2025 7:47 AM UTC and was resolved by Mar 11, 2025 7:51 AM UTC, lasting about 4 minutes. The provider issued 2 status updates during the event. During the incident, users may have seen intermittent latency or sporadic failures, with services returning to normal after the updates. No clear regional pattern was observed.

OpenAI's ChatGPT Web service experienced degraded performance starting at 5:31 PM UTC and was resolved by 8:31 PM UTC. The issue affected the ChatGPT web interface, with users reporting slower responses and intermittent access during the incident. The status page moved from Up to Degraded (warn) and back to Up, with two official updates published during the event. A report from Hackney, United Kingdom at 6:33 PM UTC indicates at least some regional visibility, though overall reports were limited.

OpenAI's ChatGPT / Search component experienced degraded performance beginning at Mar 5, 2025 11:01 PM UTC and resolving at Mar 6, 2025 12:17 AM UTC, lasting approximately 1 hour 16 minutes. Users may have experienced intermittent issues with ChatGPT features and search functionality during this window.

OpenAI's APIs and Compliance components experienced a brief degradation from Mar 5, 2025 6:36 PM UTC to Mar 5, 2025 9:16 PM UTC, lasting about 2 hours and 40 minutes. During this window users may have encountered slower responses or intermittent access to API endpoints and Compliance features. OpenAI's status page documented the degraded state and subsequent restoration, with 2 status updates issued during the incident. A small number of user reports corroborated the period of degraded service.

OpenAI experienced a brief degradation affecting the APIs / Fine-tuning component. The incident began at 1:12 AM UTC and was resolved by 1:41 AM UTC, spanning about 29 minutes. OpenAI issued two official status updates during the incident, describing the degradation and restoration of normal service. The impact was limited to the APIs / Fine-tuning component, with other OpenAI services remaining unaffected.

OpenAI API Chat experienced a brief degraded performance beginning at Mar 3, 2025 1:21 AM UTC and returning to normal by Mar 3, 2025 3:11 AM UTC. The issue affected the APIs / Chat component, with users potentially encountering slower responses or intermittent errors when using chat endpoints during the window. The incident was a transient degradation rather than a full outage.

The OpenAI status page reflected the disruption with a transition from up to warn for the APIs / Chat component and a subsequent return to up. The outage lasted approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes and was resolved after two official status updates.

OpenAI reported a brief degraded performance for ChatGPT / Voice mode beginning at 12:37 AM UTC and returning to normal at 4:32 AM UTC. This degradation did not constitute a full outage of OpenAI services but could have affected voice-related features and related chat interactions during the window.

OpenAI posted two status updates documenting the degraded state and subsequent recovery. The impact was limited to the ChatGPT / Voice mode component.

OpenAI experienced a brief outage affecting the ChatGPT login experience. A small number of users reported sign-in issues while accessing ChatGPT. The incident began at Feb 28, 2025 6:02 PM UTC and was resolved by Feb 28, 2025 8:21 PM UTC, lasting about 2 hours and 19 minutes. The impact appears to be isolated to the ChatGPT / Login component. The OpenAI status page showed the issue evolving from a degraded state to restoration, with two official updates during the incident.