OpenAI outage: Issues with login, signup, and ads

1. resolvedOct 1, 2026, 19:39 UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

2. monitoringOct 1, 2026, 19:26 UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

3. identifiedOct 1, 2026, 19:17 UTC

   We have identified that users are experiencing login issues for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

4. investigatingOct 1, 2026, 19:06 UTC

   We are investigating issues affecting login, signup, and ads

5. investigatingOct 1, 2026, 18:46 UTC

   We are investigating an issue affecting login and signup. We will share further updates as we learn more.

What APIStatus.watch saw

• Oct 1, 2026, 18:50 UTCdegraded → partial outage
• Oct 1, 2026, 19:40 UTCpartial outage → degraded

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OpenAI reported 18 incidents in the last 90 days, 4 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 52 min. See OpenAI's uptime and incident history