OpenAI outage — August 31, 2026
Elevated latency in the Responses API
OpenAI’s Multiple services has a confirmed disruption, detected on August 31, 2026.
Key facts
| Detected | August 31, 2026 · 22:27 UTC |
| Confirmed | 22:27 UTC |
| Service | Multiple services |
| Official record | https://status.openai.com |
Timeline
- 22:27Z
Detected · Signal
13 crowd signals for Multiple services on OPENAI crossed the signal threshold. - 22:27Z
Confirmed · Official
An official OPENAI status-page notice corroborated the event the same cycle.
Evidence
| Official status feed | degraded (changed 22:27 UTC) |
| Anomaly score | +2.23σ above this cell's own baseline |
| Engine confidence | 95% |
Outage-related signals per hour over the live window, oldest → newest (peak 4).
How this was detected
1 independent evidence class for Multiple services on OPENAI. 13 crowd reports across bluesky (single platform — not corroborating), z=+2.2σ vs the cell baseline. Official notice confirms it.