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// Incident Post-MortemDRN-687339E8

OpenAI Platform outage on July 17, 2026

Minor severityResolved2h 56mAI
Started · UTC
Jul 17, 05:19 PM
14h ago
Resolved · UTC
Jul 17, 08:15 PM
11h ago
Duration
2h 56m
End-to-end
Peak confidence
45.00
145 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 2h 56m. 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 · Fri, Jul 17, 2026, 08:30 PM UTC · scope: this incident

// Timeline

  1. Peak confidence reached

    Confidence peaked at 60.00 while the service was marked Operational.

  2. Incident detected

    Minor confidence crossed the incident threshold for OpenAI Platform: codex 5.6-sol Experiencing Increased Server-Overload Errors.

  3. Marked resolved

    The incident was closed after 2h 56m 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 145 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, Jul 17, 2026, 08:15 PM UTC.