# OpenAI Status Monitor API

> OpenAI Status Monitor API is a paid API for AI agents from status-state-api.replit.app, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-02).

Returns the current normalized status of OpenAI services, including overall health, component-level breakdown, and any active incidents, via a pay-per-call x402 micropayment model.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://status-state-api.replit.app/api/monitors/openai?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-02
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/openai-status-monitor-api-c84e10f6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_4n87j9kOC-FvfYSf_gfA4

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability openai-status-monitor-api-c84e10f6
```

Example prompt: Can you check whether OpenAI is currently experiencing any outages or degraded services, and let me know which components are affected?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a normalized, vendor-agnostic status summary for OpenAI without setting up API keys or accounts. It is ideal for agents that need pay-per-call, on-demand status checks with no subscription overhead. Prefer this over scraping OpenAI's status page directly when you want structured JSON output and fault-first component ordering. The x402 micropayment model makes it suitable for automated pipelines that call it infrequently.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not provided or rejected: returns 402 with preview JSON containing overallStatus and hasActiveIncident
- Unknown or invalid slug: may return 404 or empty result
- Stale data: sourceUpdatedAt may lag if upstream status page is slow to update
- Network timeout: Replit-hosted service may have cold-start latency

## How this service works

Current normalized overall status, fault-first components, active incident (or closedIncidentSummary if stale), and poll clocks. overallStatus and hasActiveIncident are in the 402 JSON body so you can decide whether to pay. $0.01 per call in USDC on Base or Solana, verified and settled by the PayAI facilitator - no API key, no signup.

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing: the vendor slug and name, a normalized overallStatus string (e.g. 'operational', 'degraded', 'outage'), an array of components sorted fault-first, an activeIncident object (or null), a closedIncidentSummary if the last incident recently closed, lastCheckedAt and sourceUpdatedAt timestamps, a staleness object indicating data freshness, and checkIntervalMinutes for polling guidance.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "pathParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "slug"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "slug": {
       "type": "string",
       "pattern": "^[a-z0-9-]{1,64}$",
       "examples": [
        "openai"
       ],
       "description": "Vendor slug from the free GET /api/monitors catalog"
      }
     }
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "slug",
      "name",
      "overallStatus",
      "components",
      "activeIncident",
      "lastCheckedAt",
      "sourceUpdatedAt",
      "staleness"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "name": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "slug": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "staleness": {
       "type": "object"
      },
      "components": {
       "type": "array"
      },
      "homepageUrl": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "lastCheckedAt": {
       "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "overallStatus": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "activeIncident": {
       "type": [
        "object",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "sourceUpdatedAt": {
       "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "componentsOmitted": {
       "type": [
        "object",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "checkIntervalMinutes": {
       "type": "number"
      },
      "closedIncidentSummary": {
       "type": [
        "object",
        "null"
       ]
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/openai-status-monitor-api-c84e10f6/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from status-state-api.replit.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/status-state-api.replit.app/llms.txt)