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// Incident Post-MortemDRN-F0B29B4F

OpenAI Platform outage on July 18, 2026

Minor severityResolved4h 33mAI
Started · UTC
Jul 18, 08:31 AM
15h ago
Resolved · UTC
Jul 18, 01:05 PM
11h ago
Duration
4h 33m
End-to-end
Peak confidence
45.00
207 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 4h 33m. The stored report window does not show a preserved user-report spike.

// What happened

OpenAI Platform appears to be operating normally based on current signals. DNS is no recent DNS check, user reports are quiet.

Cached · Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 01:03 PM UTC · scope: this incident

// Timeline

  1. Incident detected

    Minor confidence crossed the incident threshold for OpenAI Platform: some users are unable to access Codex.

  2. Marked resolved

    The incident was closed after 4h 32m of observed impact.

  3. Peak confidence reached

    Confidence peaked at 60.00 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 207 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 Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 01:05 PM UTC.