OpenAI incident: Degraded performance in Codex and Work mode: Dot turn failures, delayed responses, and reduced proactivity

1. resolvedOct 7, 2026, 18:23 UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

2. investigatingOct 7, 2026, 17:21 UTC

   We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

What APIStatus.watch saw

• Oct 7, 2026, 16:33 UTCoperational → degraded
• Oct 7, 2026, 18:23 UTCdegraded → operational

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How often does OpenAI have incidents?

OpenAI reported 35 incidents in the last 90 days, 7 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 59 min. See OpenAI's uptime and incident history