OpenAI incident: Degraded performance in Codex and ChatGPT Work

1. resolvedOct 14, 2026, 09:53 UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

2. identifiedOct 14, 2026, 09:19 UTC

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

3. identifiedOct 14, 2026, 07:05 UTC

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

What APIStatus.watch saw

• Oct 14, 2026, 07:09 UTCoperational → degraded
• Oct 14, 2026, 09:55 UTCdegraded → operational
• Oct 14, 2026, 10:19 UTCoperational → degraded

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How often does OpenAI have incidents?

OpenAI reported 46 incidents in the last 90 days, 9 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 1h 21m. See OpenAI's uptime and incident history