August 20, 2026 · started 00:37 UTC

OpenAI outage.

OpenAI reported degraded for 18 minutes, then recovered.

18 minutesduration

Degradedworst reported level

00:37 UTCAugust 20, 2026

Timeline

00:37 UTC — operational → degraded Partial System Degradation
00:55 UTC — back to operational All Systems Operational

As published on OpenAI's official status page, observed by our poller. Times are UTC. See current OpenAI status, its RSS feed, or all recorded outages.