OpenAI Outage History

The OpenAI status page showed a brief login issue for ChatGPT Web with SSO, with users experiencing errors when signing in. The incident began at 9:16 PM UTC and was resolved by 9:27 PM UTC, lasting about 11 minutes. OpenAI issued an update noting investigation into the SSO login failures, and the ChatGPT component returned to normal after the incident. The outage affected the authentication flow but did not indicate broader service disruption, and there were two official status updates issued during the incident.

OpenAI's ChatGPT web and mobile services experienced a brief outage starting at 8:16 PM UTC with elevated error rates, preventing responses for a portion of users. The disruption lasted about 20 minutes and was resolved by 8:36 PM UTC. OpenAI posted two status updates during the incident, noting an ongoing investigation and later restoration of normal operations. The event indicates a broad impact across users accessing ChatGPT on both web and mobile platforms. A large volume of user reports followed the outage, suggesting widespread impact across regions.

OpenAI's ChatGPT experienced a brief outage affecting web and mobile users. Users reported elevated errors and failures to load or respond to messages, with some seeing 'Something went wrong' errors. The issue impacted the ChatGPT component and lasted about 20 minutes, from Jan 29, 2025 8:16 PM UTC to Jan 29, 2025 8:36 PM UTC.

OpenAI's status page showed the incident beginning with an investigation into elevated errors for ChatGPT, followed by restoration of service. The provider issued two status updates during the incident. StatusGator detected user-reported issues starting at Jan 29, 2025 8:04 PM UTC, about 12 minutes before the official acknowledgment at Jan 29, 2025 8:16 PM UTC. Service was restored by Jan 29, 2025 8:36 PM UTC and operations returned to normal. The incident generated a high volume of reports from users across multiple regions, indicating broad impact.

OpenAI's Sora video generation component experienced a brief outage, causing errors for users attempting to generate videos. The issue was limited to the Sora component and did not indicate a broader OpenAI service disruption. The outage began at Jan 28, 2025 6:56 PM UTC and was resolved by Jan 28, 2025 7:22 PM UTC, lasting roughly 26 minutes. The OpenAI status page published two updates during the incident: an initial note that video generation errors were being investigated, followed by a later update confirming that Sora had returned to normal.

OpenAI's Sora video generation service experienced a brief outage, preventing video generation for a short period. The outage began on Jan 28, 2025 6:12 PM UTC and was resolved by Jan 28, 2025 6:27 PM UTC, lasting approximately 15 minutes, and appeared limited to the Sora component while other OpenAI services remained available. OpenAI posted two status updates during the incident—initially noting elevated errors and ongoing investigation, followed by confirmation that Sora had returned to normal operation.

OpenAI's ChatGPT experienced degraded performance beginning at Jan 23, 2025 1:16 PM UTC, with users reporting errors and slower responses. The issue escalated to a full outage at Jan 23, 2025 3:12 PM UTC and was resolved by Jan 23, 2025 4:07 PM UTC. The disruption affected ChatGPT users globally, with errors such as bad gateway messages and pages failing to load.

Over the course of the incident, OpenAI issued 3 status updates detailing ongoing monitoring and investigation. The outage duration included roughly 55 minutes of full outage (from 15:12 to 16:07 UTC) and about 2 hours 51 minutes of degraded or interrupted service from the initial degradation to recovery.

OpenAI experienced an elevated error rate affecting ChatGPT and the API, resulting in degraded performance for users. The incident began at 12:02 PM UTC and was resolved by 12:46 PM UTC, lasting about 44 minutes. A sizable volume of user reports accompanied the issue, indicating broad impact across environments using OpenAI services.

The OpenAI status page posted two updates during the incident, first noting ongoing investigation and then confirming resolution as services returned to normal.

OpenAI's ChatGPT website and API experienced degraded performance due to bad gateway errors beginning around 11:46 UTC. Users reported 502/503 gateway errors and login issues across the ChatGPT web and mobile interfaces as well as the API. OpenAI acknowledged the issue at 12:02 UTC, noting an elevated error rate for ChatGPT and API and that investigation was ongoing. The incident prompted two official updates before the status page returned to a stable state at 12:46 UTC. StatusGator detected the issue at Jan 23, 2025 11:46 AM UTC, about 16 minutes before OpenAI's acknowledgement at Jan 23, 2025 12:02 PM UTC. Some users continued to report issues through Jan 23, 2025 2:17 PM UTC.

OpenAI's Embeddings API experienced high error rates beginning at Jan 21, 2025 8:56 AM UTC, causing failed or degraded embedding requests for some users. The Embeddings API component was affected, leading to slower responses and intermittent failures for embedding generation. The incident lasted about 11 hours and 11 minutes, ending at Jan 21, 2025 8:07 PM UTC when the service returned to normal operation. OpenAI issued 2 status updates during the incident as they worked on a fix and the Embeddings API moved from warn to up at the end of the window.

OpenAI reported a brief degradation in performance impacting the 4o and 4o-mini models accessed through the API. Users may have experienced higher error rates or slower responses during the incident. The outage began at 3:57 AM UTC and was resolved by 4:17 AM UTC, lasting about 20 minutes. OpenAI issued 2 status updates during the event, first indicating degraded performance and ongoing investigation, then confirming the issue was resolved and services returned to normal. The impact was limited to the API component, with no other services noted as affected.