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OpenAI

Issues with login, signup, and ads

Partial outage Lasted 53m · started · OpenAI's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Partial outage
Components
Login, Ads Manager, Ads API
Down Index
29of 100

What to do

  • Check whether you use OpenAI Login, Ads Manager, Ads API. Check your stack

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  • Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 53m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2026-10-01 18:46 UTC and 2026-10-01 19:39 UTC may need a replay.
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Updates from OpenAI 5

  1. investigating

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

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  2. investigating

    We are investigating issues affecting login, signup, and ads

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  3. identified

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

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  4. monitoring

    We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

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  5. resolved

    All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about DWN-957589ce9a

Is OpenAI still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-10-01 19:39 UTC. For OpenAI's live state, see https://down.guide/openai.

How long did it last?

53m, from 2026-10-01 18:46 UTC to 2026-10-01 19:39 UTC, by the times OpenAI posted.

What was affected?

OpenAI named Login, Ads Manager, Ads API.

What caused it?

OpenAI hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.

Where does this come from?

OpenAI's official status page, https://status.openai.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.