OpenAI Outage History

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.

The incident began at Nov 26, 2025 12:06 AM UTC when OpenAI flagged an increase in ChatGPT errors for some users. A broad set of ChatGPT components experienced degraded performance, impacting various features such as ChatGPT Conversations, Search, File uploads, Voice mode, Deep Research, Agent, Codex, and related tools. Users reported intermittent issues and reduced reliability across multiple capabilities during the event.

OpenAI issued two status updates during the incident; by Nov 26, 2025 3:06 AM UTC the affected components had returned to normal, marking an incident duration of about 3 hours. The updates confirm ongoing investigation followed by recovery across multiple ChatGPT features.

OpenAI began investigating ImageGen issues affecting ChatGPT Workspaces with EU Data Residency at 7:41 PM UTC, followed by a broader alert for Workspaces with Non-US Data Residency at 8:16 PM UTC. The Image Generation component experienced degraded performance and, in some cases, disappearing generated images for users. The incident prompted multiple status updates as the team diagnosed the root cause and implemented a fix. The outage lasted about 3 hours, beginning 7:41 PM UTC and ending with the Image Generation service restored at 10:41 PM UTC. OpenAI issued 4 updates during the incident at the times noted above. User reports described image loss or disappearing results, including a report from Chicago at 10:38 PM UTC.

OpenAI reported elevated errors impacting ChatGPT / Codex, causing degraded performance for Codex-related features. The incident began on Nov 23, 2025 4:26 AM UTC and was resolved by Nov 23, 2025 6:56 AM UTC, lasting about 2 hours and 30 minutes. OpenAI issued an initial status update noting the elevated errors and a follow-up after applying mitigation while monitoring recovery.

OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex experienced elevated errors beginning at Nov 22, 2025 7:21 PM UTC, leading to degraded responsiveness and errors for users across Codex and related ChatGPT features. Reports described non-responsive Codex endpoints and other interaction failures, with activity observed from multiple U.S. regions (e.g., Tennessee, Utah, Hawaii) over several hours. The incident did not indicate a full outage but caused noticeable disruption for developers and end users relying on Codex and ChatGPT tooling.

The provider issued two status updates during the incident, describing elevated errors and ongoing investigation, and services were restored by Nov 22, 2025 10:51 PM UTC. The outage lasted roughly 3 hours and 30 minutes, with a return to normal operation after the final update. Reports from several U.S. locations suggest a regional impact rather than a global one.

OpenAI experienced a brief degradation affecting Codex Web task creation and certain Deep Research connections (including GitHub integration). Users reported errors when creating new tasks in Codex Web and intermittent issues with GitHub links through Deep Research. The incident impacted two OpenAI components: ChatGPT / Codex and ChatGPT / Deep Research, with affected users experiencing task creation failures and related API problems. The outage began at Nov 18, 2025 9:06 PM UTC and was resolved by Nov 18, 2025 10:21 PM UTC, lasting about 1 hour and 15 minutes. The OpenAI status page documented the issue as a degradation affecting these features, followed by a restoration once mitigation was in place. During the incident, OpenAI issued two status updates outlining the degraded task creation and GitHub integration issues and noting that a mitigation was being implemented; later updates indicated the service had returned to normal. User reports described API errors and related disruptions consistent with the described symptoms.

OpenAI users experienced login failures across the platform starting at 2:18 PM UTC. Many reported being unable to sign in or access account features, with some facing Cloudflare challenge pages, and others seeing 504 errors. The disruption lasted until 2:47 PM UTC. StatusGator logged an Early Warning Signal at Nov 18, 2025 2:18 PM UTC, indicating the issue was detected before OpenAI's status updates were published. The surge in user reports around mid-afternoon indicates a broad impact on authentication and login workflows across OpenAI services.