OpenAI incident

Degraded Performance with Codex Cloud Tasks

Resolved after 1 hour 10 minutes, affecting Codex Web and Codex API and 1 more, on May 8, 2026.

investigating May 08, 2026, 03:07 PM UTC

We are observing an issue with follow-up prompts to Codex Cloud tasks failing at higher than expected rate. We are investigating the issue.

Started
May 08, 2026, 03:07 PM UTC
Resolved
May 08, 2026, 04:17 PM UTC
Duration
1h 10m
Detected by Pingoru
May 08, 2026, 03:07 PM UTC

Affected components

Codex WebCodex APICLIVS Code extensionCodex in ChatGPT Desktop

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 08, 2026, 03:07 PM UTC

    We are observing an issue with follow-up prompts to Codex Cloud tasks failing at higher than expected rate. We are investigating the issue.

  2. resolved May 08, 2026, 04:17 PM UTC

    All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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