# AI API outages on August 9, 2026 (UTC)

Measured every 5 minutes from 4 regions. An outage is attributed to a provider only when it failed from 2+ regions at once and no other provider failed in the same minutes.

## Was the OpenAI API down on August 9, 2026?

Yes, measured. 5 outage(s) attributed to OpenAI: host probes failed from up to 4 of 4 regions at once while no other provider was failing, first at 01:07 UTC, at least 98 minutes observed in total. OpenAI's status page lists nothing that day.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 01:07-01:15 | host probes | eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=8 min | 4 | provider_outage |
| 02:02-02:42 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=40 min | 10 | unattributed |
| 03:20-03:40 | host probes | ap-tokyo us-central | >=20 min | 3 | unattributed |
| 03:55-03:57 | host probes | eu-hetzner sa-east | >=2 min | 2 | unattributed |
| 04:20-04:27 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east | >=7 min | 3 | unattributed |
| 04:47-05:20 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=33 min | 8 | provider_outage |
| 05:40-07:32 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=112 min | 18 | unattributed |
| 08:25-09:50 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=85 min | 16 | unattributed |
| 10:10-10:37 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner | >=27 min | 6 | unattributed |
| 11:05-11:22 | host probes | eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=17 min | 7 | unattributed |
| 11:42-12:05 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east | >=23 min | 5 | provider_outage |
| 12:35-12:55 | host probes | ap-tokyo us-central | >=20 min | 4 | provider_outage |
| 13:15-14:50 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=95 min | 17 | unattributed |
| 15:20-16:00 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=40 min | 7 | unattributed |
| 16:50-19:50 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=180 min | 31 | unattributed |
| 20:10-20:25 | host probes | eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=15 min | 5 | unattributed |
| 21:10-21:25 | host probes | ap-tokyo us-central | >=15 min | 2 | provider_outage |
| 21:40-22:10 | host probes | ap-tokyo sa-east us-central | >=30 min | 6 | unattributed |
| 23:35-00:05 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=30 min | 7 | unattributed |

Live status now: https://llmlatency.dev/provider/openai

## Was the yi-01ai API down on August 9, 2026?

Not attributably. 1 multi-region failure(s) of yi-01ai coincided with failures of other providers, so the cause sat above yi-01ai and is not blamed on it.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 08:15-08:40 | host probes | ap-tokyo sa-east | >=25 min | 5 | unattributed |

Live status now: https://llmlatency.dev/provider/yi-01ai

Source: https://llmlatency.dev/incidents/2026-08-09 · CC BY 4.0