OpenAI incident

Increase in users hitting Codex rate limits

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

OpenAI experienced a minor incident on May 23, 2026 affecting Codex Web and Codex API and 1 more component, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
May 23, 2026, 10:58 AM UTC
Resolved
May 23, 2026, 10:58 AM UTC
Duration
Detected by Pingoru
May 23, 2026, 10:58 AM UTC

Affected components

Codex WebCodex APICLIVS Code extensionApp

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 22, 2026, 04:37 PM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components Codex Web (Degraded performance) CLI (Degraded performance) App (Degraded performance) VS Code extension (Degraded performance) Codex API (Degraded performance)

  2. monitoring May 22, 2026, 07:16 PM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components VS Code extension (Degraded performance) Codex API (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance) CLI (Degraded performance) App (Degraded performance)

  3. monitoring May 22, 2026, 07:16 PM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components VS Code extension (Degraded performance) Codex API (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance) CLI (Degraded performance) App (Degraded performance)

  4. resolved May 23, 2026, 10:58 AM UTC

    Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components App (Operational) VS Code extension (Operational) Codex API (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) CLI (Operational)