What Happened
OpenAI experienced an outage on June 5, 2026. The incident lasted approximately 45 minutes.
AI research company providing GPT models, ChatGPT, DALL-E, Whisper, and APIs for natural language processing, image generation, and speech recognition.
Timeline
| Time (UTC) | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 19:36 | Monitoring | We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. |
| 19:12 | Identified | We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation. |
| 15:19 | Identified | An issue caused some user accounts to be incorrectly suspended. We’re restoring account access and working through related subscription and credit impacts for affected users. |
| 14:52 | Identified | We are still implementing the mitigation. |
| 14:20 | Identified | We have identified the issue impacting account access for some users, and we are working on a fix. |
| 13:26 | Investigating | We are investigating the issue for the listed services. |
| 15:28 | Monitoring | We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. |
| 14:36 | Identified | We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation. |
| 14:11 | Investigating | We are investigating the issue for the listed services. |
| 15:24 | Monitoring | We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. |
| 14:48 | Investigating | We are investigating the issue for the listed services. |
| 16:12 | Resolved | All systems operational |
Impact
The outage lasted approximately 45 minutes. OpenAI runs on Azure — check those status pages if you experienced cascading issues.
Resolution
OpenAI has recovered and is now operational.
What To Do Next
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