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// Incident Post-MortemDRN-662CE8F5

ChatGPT outage on July 18, 2026

Minor severityResolved4h 50mAI
Started · UTC
Jul 18, 08:43 AM
15h ago
Resolved · UTC
Jul 18, 01:33 PM
10h ago
Duration
4h 50m
End-to-end
Peak confidence
29.00
220 snapshots
// User impact

ChatGPT users likely saw failed connections, degraded availability, or session instability for this AI service. The incident reached Minor severity and lasted 4h 50m. The stored report window does not show a preserved user-report spike.

// What happened

Current signals suggest ChatGPT is operational. Downrightnow's checks are passing, user reports are quiet, and the service's web address is resolving normally. There are no open official incidents or vendor status page alerts.

Cached · Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 01:04 PM UTC · scope: this incident

// Timeline

  1. Incident detected

    Minor confidence crossed the incident threshold for ChatGPT.

  2. Status changed to Degraded Performance

    The stored readout moved to Degraded Performance with confidence 38.00.

  3. Marked resolved

    The incident was closed after 4h 22m of observed impact.

  4. Peak confidence reached

    Confidence peaked at 80.00 while the service was marked Operational.

// Signals by source0 sources

No per-source signal payloads were preserved in this incident's snapshot window.

// Aggregate evidence

Confidence scoring

29.00

The incident reached 29.00 peak confidence across 220 stored status snapshots.

User reports

0 / 15m

No elevated user-report volume was preserved in the incident window snapshots.

Status samples

19 affected

19 snapshots in the window showed degraded, recovering, or major-outage state before recovery.

Recovery signal

Resolved

Recovery was recorded at Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 01:33 PM UTC.