OpenAI outage on 30 September 2026
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“Issues with login, signup, and ads”
On 30 September, OpenAI had a major outage starting at 02:20 UTC, initially reported as errors creating or interacting with ChatGPT Space Pages. Other listed issues covered login, signup, ads, ChatGPT Pro and Plus error rates, and API latency. The incident stayed open for 45 hours 24 minutes and was resolved at 23:44 UTC on 1 October. The status page reported a mitigation by 06:03 and full recovery at 10:34 on 30 September. It then posted further mitigations at 15:00, and on 1 October at 16:51 said some users may still see slow or timed-out results. Blackbaud, Mailgun and Studocu also reported problems during the same period.
- When
- 02:20–23:45 UTC
- How long
- 45 h 24 min
- Incident open on its page
- 02:20–23:44 UTC
- OpenAI, 30 days before
- 1 other outage
At the same time
Started in the hour before or during it
And 1109 lesser-known services. Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.
Timeline
Times in UTC
- Cause identified
- Fix in place, monitoring
- Resolved
Where this comes from
Stackpulse reads OpenAI’s official status page at status.openai.com every minute. The times above are when it reported the problem; the summary is written from its updates and checked against them.
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