OpenAI incident

Issues with Increased Codex Usage Rate

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

OpenAI experienced a minor incident on March 7, 2026 affecting Codex Web, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Mar 07, 2026, 01:00 AM UTC
Resolved
Mar 07, 2026, 01:00 AM UTC
Duration
Detected by Pingoru
Mar 07, 2026, 01:00 AM UTC

Affected components

Codex Web

Update timeline

  1. identified Mar 06, 2026, 06:35 PM UTC

    Status: Identified We have identified an issue causing Codex usage to be consumed faster than expected, which may cause some users to hit rate limits sooner than intended. We are working on implementing a mitigation. Affected components Codex Web (Degraded performance)

  2. identified Mar 06, 2026, 07:20 PM UTC

    Status: Identified We have identified an issue causing Codex usage to be consumed faster than expected, which may cause some users to hit rate limits sooner than intended. We are working on implementing a mitigation. Affected components Codex Web (Degraded performance)

  3. identified Mar 06, 2026, 10:08 PM UTC

    Status: Identified We have identified an issue causing Codex usage to be consumed faster than expected, which may cause some users to hit rate limits sooner than intended. We are working on implementing a mitigation. Affected components Codex Web (Degraded performance)

  4. resolved Mar 07, 2026, 01:00 AM UTC

    Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Codex Web (Operational)