Isitreallydown?
// Incident Post-MortemDRN-BA6643E8

OpenAI Platform outage on May 8, 2026

Minor severityResolved45 minAI
Started · UTC
May 08, 12:31 PM
4d ago
Resolved · UTC
May 08, 01:16 PM
4d ago
Duration
45 min
End-to-end
Peak confidence
45.00
17 snapshots
// What happened

OpenAI Platform appears to be operating normally based on current signals. Isitreallydown?'s synthetic checks are not yet measured, DNS is not yet measured, user reports are quiet.

Cached · Tue, May 12, 2026, 12:33 PM UTC · scope: service signals

// Timeline

  1. Status changed to Operational

    The stored readout moved to Operational with confidence 55.00.

  2. Incident detected

    Minor confidence crossed the incident threshold for Increased Error Rate for gpt-5.5 Model in the API.

  3. Marked resolved

    The incident was closed after 45 min of observed impact.

  4. Peak confidence reached

    Confidence peaked at 55.00 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

45.00

The incident reached 45.00 peak confidence across 17 stored status snapshots.

User reports

0 / 15m

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

Status samples

0 affected

The incident row exists, but the bounded snapshot window does not include affected status samples.

Recovery signal

Resolved

Recovery was recorded at Fri, May 08, 2026, 01:16 PM UTC.

// User impact

OpenAI Platform users likely saw failed connections, degraded availability, or session instability for this AI service. The incident reached Minor severity and lasted 45 min. The stored report window does not show a preserved user-report spike.