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// Incident Post-MortemDRN-8050D8FA

OpenAI Platform outage on July 16, 2026

Minor severityResolved6h 3mAI
Started · UTC
Jul 16, 08:36 AM
46h ago
Resolved · UTC
Jul 16, 02:39 PM
40h ago
Duration
6h 3m
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 3m. The stored report window does not show a preserved user-report spike.

// What happened

OpenAI's official status page is reporting "Partial System Degradation" for the OpenAI Platform. Current signals suggest the issue may be impacting some users or specific locations, but this is unclear due to a lack of user reports and recent testing data.

Cached · Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 02:40 PM UTC · scope: this incident

// Timeline
  1. Incident detected

    Minor confidence crossed the incident threshold for OpenAI Platform: elevated Error Rates For SSO Login.

  2. Marked resolved

    The incident was closed after 6h 3m 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, Jul 16, 2026, 02:39 PM UTC.