OpenAI Outage History

OpenAI ChatGPT experienced elevated errors, resulting in degraded performance for users. Some users encountered failed responses and slower interactions during the incident. User reports began around 9:30 PM UTC indicating visible impact before official acknowledgment.

OpenAI reported degraded performance in ChatGPT conversations with Operator beginning at 12:57 AM UTC and lasting until 1:37 AM UTC, a duration of about 40 minutes. The OpenAI status page showed the issue as Investigating with degraded performance for ChatGPT conversations with Operator. The incident included two official status updates during the window, and the service was restored to normal with the final update confirming resolution. The outage affected the ChatGPT component, interrupting conversations with Operator for the affected period.

OpenAI's ChatGPT service experienced a temporary degraded performance affecting Custom GPTs, with some users seeing 'Invalid Conversation Body' errors when interacting with their Custom GPTs. The outage began at 7:16 PM UTC and was resolved by 10:16 PM UTC, lasting about 3 hours. Regenerating can sometimes yield a successful response during this period.

The OpenAI status page documented the issue as affecting the ChatGPT component and noted two status updates during the incident, describing the investigation and eventual recovery. The issue appeared to be isolated to Custom GPT functionality, with normal service resuming after the incident.

OpenAI ChatGPT experienced elevated errors and degraded performance for about 21 minutes. The incident began at 2:41 AM UTC when the ChatGPT component was listed as degraded, with user reports first appearing around 2:15 AM UTC and 2:30 AM UTC. The issue affected users trying to use ChatGPT, causing intermittent errors and slower responses. The outage was resolved when OpenAI restored normal status at 3:02 AM UTC.

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.