OpenAI API degradation — 2026-08-11
Partial System Degradation It began at 2026-08-11 13:00 UTC and is still ongoing after 1h 19m. We recorded 28 failing checks during the window.
Check-by-check timeline
- 2026-08-11 12:48 UTCOperational228ms · HTTP 200All Systems Operational
- 2026-08-11 12:51 UTCOperational380ms · HTTP 200All Systems Operational
- 2026-08-11 12:54 UTCOperational234ms · HTTP 200All Systems Operational
- 2026-08-11 12:57 UTCDegraded213ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 13:00 UTCDegraded225ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 13:03 UTCDegraded273ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 13:06 UTCDegraded270ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 13:09 UTCDegraded243ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 13:12 UTCDegraded427ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 13:15 UTCDegraded236ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 13:18 UTCDegraded256ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 13:21 UTCDegraded228ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 13:24 UTCDegraded280ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 13:27 UTCDegraded242ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 13:30 UTCDegraded274ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 13:33 UTCDegraded249ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 13:36 UTCDegraded243ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 13:39 UTCDegraded240ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 13:42 UTCDegraded227ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 13:45 UTCDegraded427ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 13:48 UTCDegraded493ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 13:51 UTCDegraded404ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 13:54 UTCDegraded484ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 13:57 UTCDegraded390ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 14:00 UTCDegraded318ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 14:03 UTCDegraded233ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 14:06 UTCDegraded286ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 14:09 UTCDegraded280ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 14:12 UTCDegraded227ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 14:15 UTCDegraded311ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
- 2026-08-11 14:18 UTCDegraded230ms · HTTP 200Partial System Degradation
Current OpenAI API status and full outage history
How this is measured
Readings are taken every few minutes from outside OpenAI API's network, combining their published status feed with a timed request to the service itself.
An incident opens after two consecutive bad readings and closes after two consecutive good ones, so the recorded duration may be a few minutes wider than the true outage.
OpenAI API's official status page is the authority on causes and affected components.