OpenAI incident

Codex Context Compaction Latency

Resolved after 13 hours 2 minutes, affecting Codex Web and Codex API and 1 more, on May 27, 2026.

monitoring May 28, 2026, 03:09 AM UTC

We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

Started
May 27, 2026, 05:57 PM UTC
Resolved
May 28, 2026, 06:59 AM UTC
Duration
13h 2m
Detected by Pingoru
May 27, 2026, 05:57 PM UTC

Affected components

Codex WebCodex APICLIVS Code extensionCodex in ChatGPT Desktop

Update timeline

  1. identified May 27, 2026, 05:57 PM UTC

    We're investigating an issue causing Codex context compaction to be slower than expected.

  2. investigating May 28, 2026, 12:14 AM UTC

    We are still investigating the issue for the listed services.

  3. investigating May 28, 2026, 01:47 AM UTC

    We are still investigating the issue for the listed services.

  4. identified May 28, 2026, 02:31 AM UTC

    We've identified a configuration error that caused Codex to be slow. We are working on implementing the mitigation at the moment.

  5. monitoring May 28, 2026, 03:09 AM UTC

    We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

  6. resolved May 28, 2026, 06:59 AM UTC

    All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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