User Requests Timing Out / Content Not Loading

highOpenAIMar 18, 2026 15:50

api

API Issue

Impact

major

Timeline

Mar 18, 2026 15:46

[identified]

via statuspage

+54m

Mar 18, 2026 16:41

[investigating]

via statuspage

+51m

Mar 18, 2026 17:31

[investigating]

via statuspage

+24m

Mar 18, 2026 17:56

[investigating]

via statuspage

+37m

Mar 18, 2026 18:32

[identified]

via statuspage

+15m

Mar 18, 2026 18:47

[monitoring]

via statuspage

+26m

Mar 18, 2026 19:14

[resolved]

via statuspage

Lessons Learned

⚠OpenAI has experienced 131 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to api have occurred 832 times across all providers in the past year. This is one of the most common failure categories in cloud infrastructure.

💡This incident is categorized as: API Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.