What Happened
OpenAI experienced an outage on July 15, 2026. The incident lasted approximately 41 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 15:25 | Monitoring | We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. |
| 15:07 | Identified | We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation. |
| 00:25 | Monitoring | We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. |
| 23:57 | Investigating | We are investigating login issues and intermittent errors affecting ChatGPT. |
| 00:42 | Resolved | All systems operational |
Impact
The outage lasted approximately 41 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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