OpenAI Outage History

OpenAI's Image API experienced a brief degradation, with image-related endpoints returning errors as the Images component showed a high error rate. The incident began at Dec 16, 2025 4:16 AM UTC when the Images API moved to a degraded state, and engineers applied mitigation as they monitored recovery. The disruption lasted about 5 minutes and was resolved by Dec 16, 2025 4:21 AM UTC. The issue was confined to the APIs / Images component and did not indicate a broader service impact.

The outage began on Dec 9, 2025 10:51 PM UTC and was resolved by Dec 12, 2025 11:17 PM UTC, affecting OpenAI's ChatGPT connectors across global users and causing degraded performance and errors across many features. The incident impacted at least 12 components, including Conversations, Login, Compliance API, Search, Codex, Deep Research, Agent, File uploads, Voice mode, GPTs, Image Generation, and ChatGPT Atlas. Users reported failures, timeouts, and incomplete responses, with Android users also seeing elevated errors. The outage lasted about 3 days and 26 minutes before stabilization.

OpenAI experienced a brief degradation affecting Codex Web and Code Reviews within ChatGPT / Codex. Users attempting to use these features reported intermittent issues, with reports coming from Europe (including the United Kingdom and the Netherlands). The incident lasted about 55 minutes. The issue began at 8:26 PM UTC and was resolved by 9:21 PM UTC. OpenAI issued two status updates during the incident to communicate the investigation and restoration of services.

OpenAI reported elevated errors impacting ChatGPT Voice mode, with users experiencing login issues and error messages. The issue began to be observed before the official acknowledgment, and the OpenAI status page transitioned the ChatGPT / Voice mode from up to a degraded state at Dec 9, 2025 7:36 PM UTC before returning to normal at Dec 9, 2025 8:11 PM UTC. The outage lasted about 35 minutes, and affected users attempting to access voice-related features.

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.