August 21, 2026 · started 19:55 UTC

OpenAI outage.

OpenAI reported degraded for 42 minutes, then recovered.

42 minutesduration

Degradedworst reported level

19:55 UTCAugust 21, 2026

Timeline

19:55 UTC — operational → degraded Partial System Degradation
20:37 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.