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OpenAI outages and incidents

Outage and incident data over the last 30 days for OpenAI.

There have been 4 outages or incidents for OpenAI in the last 30 days.

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Components and Services Monitored for OpenAI

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API Active
ChatGPT Active
Labs Active
Playground Active
Component Status
API Active
ChatGPT Active
Labs Active
Playground Active

Latest OpenAI outages and incidents.

View the latest incidents for OpenAI and check for official updates:

Updates:

  • Time: June 11, 2024, 7:56 p.m.
    Status: Postmortem
    Update: On June 3, 2024, at 11:49 PM PDT, ChatGPT experienced a significant outage affecting all user tiers \(paid, enterprise, free, anonymous\). By 4:10 AM PDT, service was fully restored. A second phase of the outage began a few hours later at 7:14 AM PDT on June 4 again impacting the same user cohorts. Service was restored for a second time at 10:07 AM PDT. ‌ The issue resulted from a database that ChatGPT depends on becoming unavailable due to traffic surges initiated by the connection pooling service and the way that service was configured. ‌ The team initially attempted to mitigate in a variety of ways, including restarting the primary server and assessing failover options to other replicas. Despite the various attempts at recovery, the primary database continued to be unreachable. We eventually blocked all traffic to ChatGPT to remove all load from the DB and were able to promote a secondary target to be the new primary and began redirecting traffic to it. Re-ramping incoming traffic concluded at 10:07 AM at which time, all services were recovered. ‌ As part of the incident response, we have already implemented the following measures: * Tuned the number of connections the pooling service makes to the DB backend. * Increased timeouts on connections made to the DB to avoid deadlocks. * Implemented exponential backoff, gradually increasing the wait time between subsequent retry attempts for DB connection failures. * Modified our load shedding tooling to make it easier to degrade more gracefully. ‌ Additionally, we will be implementing the following changes to prevent future incidents of this type altogether: * Re-architect the DB design to increase its redundancy. * Improve our ability to load shed at the DB layer \(in addition to the clients\). * Expand the load testing and benchmarking we do for the backend layer.
  • Time: June 4, 2024, 5:17 p.m.
    Status: Resolved
    Update: We experienced a major outage impacting all users on all plans of ChatGPT. The impact included all ChatGPT related services. The impact did not include platform.openai.com or the API. This incident started June 4th at 2:15p GMT and was resolved June 4th at 5:01p GMT. UPDATE (5:59p GMT) A 'hard refresh' may be necessary for users of ChatGPT on web at chatgpt.com. This should not be necessary for anyone using ChatGPT on the Mac app or our mobile (iOS/Android) apps. See below for how to perform a 'hard refresh' by browser. Mac: Chrome and/or Firefox = Press Cmd + Shift + R Safari = Press Cmd + Option + R PC: Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge = Press Ctrl + F5 Mobile devices: To hard refresh in your browser on a mobile device you will need to manually clear the cache before reloading the page.
  • Time: June 4, 2024, 2:33 p.m.
    Status: Investigating
    Update: We are currently investigating this issue.

Updates:

  • Time: June 4, 2024, 11:45 a.m.
    Status: Resolved
    Update: This incident has been resolved.
  • Time: June 4, 2024, 11:19 a.m.
    Status: Monitoring
    Update: A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
  • Time: June 4, 2024, 9 a.m.
    Status: Identified
    Update: We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
  • Time: June 4, 2024, 8:32 a.m.
    Status: Identified
    Update: Identified the issue and mitigating.
  • Time: June 4, 2024, 7:21 a.m.
    Status: Investigating
    Update: We are currently investigating this issue.

Updates:

  • Time: June 4, 2024, 11:45 a.m.
    Status: Resolved
    Update: This incident has been resolved.
  • Time: June 4, 2024, 11:19 a.m.
    Status: Monitoring
    Update: A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
  • Time: June 4, 2024, 9 a.m.
    Status: Identified
    Update: We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
  • Time: June 4, 2024, 8:32 a.m.
    Status: Identified
    Update: Identified the issue and mitigating.
  • Time: June 4, 2024, 7:21 a.m.
    Status: Investigating
    Update: We are currently investigating this issue.

Updates:

  • Time: June 3, 2024, 10:38 p.m.
    Status: Resolved
    Update: Engineers have resolved the issue.
  • Time: June 3, 2024, 10:13 p.m.
    Status: Monitoring
    Update: Engineers have identified and reverted the user impacting update on new conversations that include images. Conversations with images should be working as expected. Engineers are monitoring the situation.
  • Time: June 3, 2024, 9:30 p.m.
    Status: Investigating
    Update: Users using ChatGPT on mobile are experiencing issues with generating new conversations that include images. Engineers are investigating the issue.

Updates:

  • Time: June 3, 2024, 10:38 p.m.
    Status: Resolved
    Update: Engineers have resolved the issue.
  • Time: June 3, 2024, 10:13 p.m.
    Status: Monitoring
    Update: Engineers have identified and reverted the user impacting update on new conversations that include images. Conversations with images should be working as expected. Engineers are monitoring the situation.
  • Time: June 3, 2024, 9:30 p.m.
    Status: Investigating
    Update: Users using ChatGPT on mobile are experiencing issues with generating new conversations that include images. Engineers are investigating the issue.

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Frequently Asked Questions - OpenAI

Is there a OpenAI outage?
The current status of OpenAI is: Systems Active
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What does OpenAI do?
The service aims to develop an artificial general intelligence that prioritizes safety and benefits for all of humanity.