OpenAI Outage History

OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex Web authentication flows encountered an outage that caused login problems, blank pages, and various errors for users across regions. The incident began on 11:32 PM UTC and was resolved by 5:56 AM UTC, lasting roughly 6 hours and 24 minutes. Some users reported errors like 504 gateway responses or prompts to log in repeatedly, indicating a broad but not total disruption of access to ChatGPT and Codex features.

OpenAI experienced an authentication-related disruption impacting ChatGPT and Codex Web, causing chat loading failures and the inability to delete problematic chats for some users. The incident began at 7:41 PM UTC and was resolved by 10:11 PM UTC, lasting about 2 hours and 30 minutes. Affected users reported issues loading chats and accessing chat history across variations of the ChatGPT/Codex experience.

The incident began on Dec 5, 2025 1:41 AM UTC with a degraded issue affecting the Slack Connector installation for ChatGPT and related GPTs features, making it difficult for some users to add Slack integration. A related problem also impacted CustomGPT controls, with the Allow/Deny button not appearing in certain GPT configurations. Users reported issues around 1:45 AM UTC, and the disruption affected two ChatGPT components: ChatGPT / Connectors and ChatGPT / GPTs. OpenAI published three official status updates during the incident as investigations and mitigations progressed, with the issue resolved by Dec 5, 2025 4:27 AM UTC. The outage lasted roughly 2 hours and 46 minutes.

OpenAI reported elevated errors affecting ChatGPT / Conversations for Business and Enterprise. The issue caused access problems for business-focused usage, with users seeing internal server errors and unresponsiveness. The incident began at Dec 3, 2025 10:26 AM UTC and was resolved about Dec 3, 2025 10:56 AM UTC after the provider issued 2 status updates and implemented mitigations.

OpenAI experienced a brief degraded performance related to creating new Codex tasks in ChatGPT / Codex. The incident began at 12:51 AM UTC when the status page indicated increased errors and an investigation with mitigation in progress. The issue was resolved by 1:46 AM UTC, lasting about 55 minutes, with OpenAI issuing two status updates during the incident. The impact was limited to Codex task creation; other OpenAI services were unaffected.

OpenAI's ChatGPT / Conversations component experienced a brief degraded performance incident, with elevated error rates affecting a portion of users. Across regions, users reported issues such as login failures, prompts not responding, and missing chat history. The incident affected the ChatGPT / Conversations component, and the service began showing degraded behavior at Dec 2, 2025 7:46 PM UTC. The issue was addressed and the service returned to normal by Dec 2, 2025 8:17 PM UTC, lasting about 31 minutes.

OpenAI issued 2 status updates during the event, describing elevated error rates and later confirming remediation. The issue was categorized on the status page as degraded performance in the ChatGPT / Conversations component, and the service returned to normal after roughly 31 minutes.

OpenAI's ChatGPT / Conversations component experienced an outage with elevated error rates that affected users globally. Some users could not access chats, see missing history, or receive replies, and prompts sometimes failed to load. The incident disrupted core chat functionality across regions for about half an hour. The official status began around 19:46 UTC with a degraded state, and the service was restored by 20:17 UTC.

OpenAI's ChatGPT / Conversations experienced a brief degradation that led to conversation errors and connectivity issues for users. The first user reports appeared at 6:15 PM UTC, and OpenAI listed the ChatGPT / Conversations component as degraded at 6:56 PM UTC, with mitigation steps applied and service restored by 7:01 PM UTC. The incident lasted roughly 5 minutes, and the OpenAI status page issued 2 updates during the event. The impact was limited to ChatGPT / Conversations with users globally experiencing intermittent issues during the window, then returning to normal.

OpenAI reported a brief degraded performance affecting ChatGPT / Conversations, with users seeing elevated errors during the incident window. The issue appeared limited to ChatGPT features and did not indicate a broader disruption to OpenAI services.

The incident began at Nov 26, 2025 10:51 PM UTC and was resolved by Nov 26, 2025 10:56 PM UTC. OpenAI issued two status updates during the event as engineers investigated the cause. User reports began around 10:30 PM UTC before official acknowledgement, suggesting some early visibility before OpenAI confirmed the issue.

The OpenAI status page reported that ChatGPT Conversations on the web experienced an issue deleting conversations, with elevated errors affecting users attempting this action. The incident began at 5:31 PM UTC and was resolved by 9:31 PM UTC, lasting roughly four hours. During the outage, some users encountered failures or errors when trying to delete conversations.

OpenAI documented the incident on their status page, noting elevated errors and that mitigation work was underway. The company issued two status updates during the event and specifically cited the ChatGPT Conversations component. User reports originated from multiple regions, indicating broad geographic impact.