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// Incident Post-MortemDRN-8DE78B8A

OpenAI Platform outage on June 18, 2026

Minor severityResolved6h 2mAI
Started · UTC
Jun 18, 03:43 AM
6d ago
Resolved · UTC
Jun 18, 09:45 AM
6d ago
Duration
6h 2m
End-to-end
Peak confidence
45.00
0 snapshots
// 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 6h 2m. The stored report window does not show a preserved user-report spike.

// What happened

OpenAI's official status page is reporting a minor partial system degradation affecting OpenAI Platform. Downrightnow's checks are passing and user reports are quiet, so this may be a minor component issue rather than a broad outage.

Cached · Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 09:50 AM UTC · scope: this incident

// Timeline
  1. Incident detected

    Minor confidence crossed the incident threshold for OpenAI Platform: chatGPT failing to load or save.

  2. Marked resolved

    The incident was closed after 6h 2m of observed impact.

// 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 available 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 Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 09:45 AM UTC.