Outage in OpenAI ChatGPT
Chatgpt.com is down - all signups and logins are down as of right now
Resolved Minor
August 19, 2026 - Started about 24 hours ago
- Lasted 16 minutes
Incident Report
Summary AI Generated
ChatGPT's login and signup functionality experienced elevated errors for approximately 16 minutes on August 20, 2026, leaving users unable to access the service. OpenAI identified the issue quickly and applied a mitigation, after which they monitored recovery. The incident was classified as minor and resolved without further escalation.
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services.
We are working on implementing a mitigation.
Components affected
OpenAI ChatGPT Login OpenAI ChatGPT ChatGPTLatest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
MONITORING
about 24 hours ago - at 08/20/2026 12:35AM
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
MONITORING
about 24 hours ago - at 08/20/2026 12:25AM
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
IDENTIFIED
1 day ago - at 08/20/2026 12:03AM
We have identified that users are experiencing login issues for the impacted services.
We are working on implementing a mitigation.
IDENTIFIED
1 day ago - at 08/20/2026 12:02AM
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services.
We are working on implementing a mitigation.
source IsDown
ChatGPT service and login issues
Reports started 31 minutes before official outage was reported
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