OpenAI

OpenAI outage on 2026-08-21

Unexpected logouts for some ChatGPT web users

Severity

Degraded

Duration

3h 26m

Started

2026-08-21 19:48 UTC

ended 2026-08-21 23:15 UTC

Where this came from

Reported by OpenAI This record comes from OpenAI's own status page, so the wording and the timings are theirs rather than ours.

20 recorded outages for OpenAI run an hour or longer.

Earlier

2026-08-20

Elevated Errors for Thinking mode in ChatGPT

Later

2026-08-27

Users may experience an increase in error rates in Workspace Agents and ChatGPT Work on Web and Mobile