What Happened
OpenAI experienced an outage on July 19, 2026. The incident lasted approximately 2 hours 15 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 16:55 | Monitoring | Service has been restored and we are continuing to monitor. |
| 15:04 | Monitoring | We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. |
| 15:01 | Identified | We have identified the cause of elevated errors affecting ChatGPT conversations, Voice, and Work Mode. We are applying mitigations and monitoring recovery. |
| 14:49 | Investigating | Some users are experiencing elevated errors when loading or continuing conversations in ChatGPT. We are investigating. |
| 17:07 | Resolved | All systems operational |
Impact
The outage lasted approximately 2 hours 15 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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