OpenAI outage: Issues with Codex

1. resolvedSep 25, 2026, 23:54 UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

2. monitoringSep 25, 2026, 23:45 UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

3. identifiedSep 25, 2026, 23:34 UTC

   We have identified root cause and are moving towards mitigation.

4. identifiedSep 25, 2026, 23:19 UTC

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5. identifiedSep 25, 2026, 23:03 UTC

   We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

6. identifiedSep 25, 2026, 22:58 UTC

   We have identified that users are experiencing a codex outage. We have identified the internal issue and are heading towards a mitigation.

What APIStatus.watch saw

• Sep 25, 2026, 23:00 UTCoperational → major outage
• Sep 25, 2026, 23:55 UTCmajor outage → operational

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How often does OpenAI have incidents?

OpenAI reported 18 incidents in the last 90 days, 4 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 52 min. See OpenAI's uptime and incident history