Openai Status Monitor

What it does

OpenAI Status Monitor tracks the real-time operational status of all OpenAI API services. It fetches data from the official OpenAI status page and extracts component health, active incidents, and historical incident records. The actor provides a clear snapshot of whether services like the API, ChatGPT, DALL-E, and other OpenAI products are experiencing issues, degraded performance, or full outages. Results are returned as structured data with service names, current status, timestamps, and any associated incident details.

Why use it

Monitoring the operational status of OpenAI services is critical for developers and businesses that rely on these APIs in production environments. This actor automates the monitoring process so you can integrate status checks into your alerting workflows, dashboards, or CI/CD pipelines. Instead of manually visiting the status page, you can schedule this actor to run at regular intervals and receive structured data about any service disruptions. This is especially valuable for teams managing applications that depend on OpenAI's uptime and need immediate notification of any service degradation.

How it works

1. The actor sends a request to the official OpenAI status API endpoint at https://status.openai.com/api/v2/summary.json.
2. It parses the JSON response to extract all service components and their current operational status.
3. If there are active incidents, it matches them to the affected services and appends incident details.
4. Optionally, if includePastIncidents is enabled, it fetches the last 20 resolved incidents from the incidents endpoint.
5. All extracted data is pushed to the Apify dataset in a structured format.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
includePastIncidents	Boolean	false	Whether to include past resolved incidents in the results

Output fields

Field	Type	Description
serviceName	String	Name of the OpenAI service component
status	String	Current operational status (operational, degraded_performance, partial_outage, major_outage)
updatedAt	String	ISO timestamp of the last status update
activeIncidents	Array	List of active incidents affecting this service
url	String	Link to the OpenAI status page

Cost estimate

This actor uses minimal resources as it only makes API calls without browser rendering. A single run typically costs less than $0.001 in Apify platform credits. Running on the default 512 MB memory setting is sufficient for all use cases.

Tips

• Schedule this actor to run every 5-15 minutes for near-real-time monitoring of OpenAI services.
• Use Apify webhooks to trigger alerts when the status field contains values other than "operational".
• Enable includePastIncidents to analyze historical reliability patterns.
• Pair this actor with notification services like Slack or email integrations for automated alerting.
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