OpenAI Outage History

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.

OpenAI reported a brief degradation in ChatGPT Voice mode, which entered a degraded state from 2:56 AM UTC to 3:36 AM UTC (approximately 40 minutes). The issue affected only ChatGPT Voice mode, with other OpenAI services unaffected. OpenAI issued two status updates during the incident describing the degraded performance and its eventual restoration.

OpenAI experienced degraded performance across its API and ChatGPT voice features beginning at 1:31 PM UTC. Users reported slower API responses and issues with ChatGPT voice search and voice playback. The degradation persisted for about 3 hours and 51 minutes, until 5:22 PM UTC, with ongoing monitoring and updates.

OpenAI published four status updates during the incident, starting with the initial degradation notice at Feb 26, 2025 1:31 PM UTC and concluding with recovery at Feb 26, 2025 5:22 PM UTC. A fix was implemented by Feb 26, 2025 5:12 PM UTC and monitoring continued as ChatGPT voice and related features returned to normal by Feb 26, 2025 5:22 PM UTC.

OpenAI experienced an incident impacting API access and ChatGPT features. The issue began at Feb 26, 2025 10:08 AM UTC with elevated API errors, and by Feb 26, 2025 11:24 AM UTC ChatGPT search and voice performance were degraded for users.

OpenAI issued 3 status updates during the incident. The API recovered by Feb 26, 2025 11:24 AM UTC and ChatGPT degradation began at Feb 26, 2025 11:24 AM UTC before being restored by Feb 26, 2025 11:41 AM UTC. The outage lasted roughly 1 hour 33 minutes and affected two components: API and ChatGPT.

OpenAI's API experienced a brief period of degraded performance with elevated errors affecting API calls. The outage began at Feb 22, 2025 3:21 AM UTC and was resolved by Feb 22, 2025 3:57 AM UTC, lasting about 36 minutes.

OpenAI's status page documented the incident as a temporary degradation of the API while investigations were underway. The issue affected the OpenAI API component, and OpenAI issued 2 official status updates during the incident to communicate the investigation and the eventual restoration of normal service.

OpenAI ChatGPT experienced a brief degradation in performance from 12:26 AM UTC to 12:37 AM UTC, with users reporting errors generating responses, timeouts, and some empty replies. The issue affected the ChatGPT component and caused short-lived disruption for a subset of users. OpenAI’s status page noted that the issue had been identified and a fix was being implemented, with the status moving from up to warn and back to up. The incident generated a small number of user reports, including observations from the United Kingdom around 00:29–00:30 UTC, suggesting the impact was localized and brief. The outage lasted about 11 minutes, and two official status updates were issued during the event.

OpenAI ChatGPT experienced degraded performance in its advanced voice features, with some users encountering errors during the incident. The issue affected the ChatGPT component and reduced reliability of voice-based interactions for a portion of users.

The incident began at 5:27 PM UTC and was resolved by 9:56 PM UTC, lasting approximately 4 hours and 29 minutes. OpenAI issued 2 status updates during the incident, first acknowledging investigation into increased errors and later confirming restoration of normal service as the issue was resolved.