OpenAI incident

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Minor Resolved View vendor source →

OpenAI experienced a minor incident on August 20, 2026 affecting Login, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 20, 2026, 12:54 AM UTC
Resolved
Aug 20, 2026, 12:54 AM UTC
Duration
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Detected by Pingoru
Aug 20, 2026, 12:54 AM UTC

Affected components

Login

Update timeline

  1. identified Aug 20, 2026, 12:02 AM UTC

    Status: Identified We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

  2. identified Aug 20, 2026, 12:03 AM UTC

    Status: Identified We have identified that users are experiencing login issues for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

  3. monitoring Aug 20, 2026, 12:25 AM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

  4. monitoring Aug 20, 2026, 12:35 AM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Login (Degraded performance)

  5. resolved Aug 20, 2026, 12:54 AM UTC

    Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Login (Operational)