Is OpenAI down in the UK?
Vendor reports an incidentWhat OpenAI reports
OpenAI reports an incident on its status page: ChatGPT Issues.
Impact: minor. Since 2026-11-05 15:25 UTC.
Latest update, 2026-11-05 15:30 UTC: We’re investigating a potential issue for the listed services and checking how it affects users. We’ll share an update when we know more.
Our regional reading
This is our own reading from outside, shown beside the vendor's statement. It is not counted as a separate outage.
Checks passingin the UK, measured from London
Our London probe last checked OpenAI at Nov 5, 2026, 4:17 PM UTC and read checks passing.
Over the last 24 hours we completed 358 checks from London and 358 answered cleanly, 100.00% availability.
Of the 9 other regions we check OpenAI from, all 9 read checks passing right now.
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What our London probe measured
Last checked Nov 5, 2026, 4:17 PM UTC.
OpenAI from London over the last 30 days
Over the last 30 days, OpenAI answered our London probe in 366 ms on average, and 1 check in 20 took longer than 619 ms.
Ranked by average response time across the 10 cities we check OpenAI from, London 4th; Frankfurt was fastest at 313 ms and Sydney slowest at 823 ms.
From London we ran 10,670 checks of OpenAI in 30 days, and 10,669 answered cleanly: 99.99% availability.
1 of the 30 days had at least one failed check. The weakest was Nov 1 (UTC), at 99.72% across 358 checks.
In London local time (GMT), OpenAI was slowest around 12 PM, at 602 ms on average over the last 14 days, and quickest around 6 AM, at 413 ms.
| Day (UTC) | Checks | Availability | Average response |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thu, Nov 5 | 241 | 100.00% | 322 ms |
| Wed, Nov 4 | 358 | 100.00% | 319 ms |
| Tue, Nov 3 | 360 | 100.00% | 296 ms |
| Mon, Nov 2 | 358 | 100.00% | 384 ms |
| Sun, Nov 1 | 358 | 99.72% | 411 ms |
| Sat, Oct 31 | 359 | 100.00% | 414 ms |
| Fri, Oct 30 | 361 | 100.00% | 425 ms |
| Thu, Oct 29 | 359 | 100.00% | 459 ms |
| Wed, Oct 28 | 360 | 100.00% | 500 ms |
| Tue, Oct 27 | 359 | 100.00% | 418 ms |
| Mon, Oct 26 | 361 | 100.00% | 521 ms |
| Sun, Oct 25 | 360 | 100.00% | 525 ms |
| Sat, Oct 24 | 360 | 100.00% | 437 ms |
| Fri, Oct 23 | 360 | 100.00% | 700 ms |
OpenAI outages measured from the UK
Our London probe measured no confirmed OpenAI outage in the last 90 days.
How the other regions read right now
Of the 9 other regions we check OpenAI from, all 9 read checks passing right now.
| Probe city | Right now | Last 24h |
|---|---|---|
| Ashburn | Checks passing | 100.00% of 599 checks |
| San Jose | Checks passing | 100.00% of 427 checks |
| Frankfurt | Checks passing | 100.00% of 393 checks |
| Tokyo | Checks passing | 100.00% of 244 checks |
| Chicago | Checks passing | 100.00% of 356 checks |
| Toronto | Checks passing | 100.00% of 358 checks |
| Singapore | Checks passing | 100.00% of 356 checks |
| Sydney | Checks passing | 100.00% of 352 checks |
| São Paulo | Checks passing | 100.00% of 356 checks |
Other countries we check OpenAI from
How we measured this
The UK readings on this page come from RealUptime's own London probe against OpenAI's public endpoints. They are not user reports, and they are not OpenAI's own status page.
See OpenAI's full check readings, the 90-day history by region, or the outage tracker methodology.
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