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OpenAI API Outage History

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OpenAI API had 42 outages in the last 2 years — averaging 1.7 incidents per month.

There were 42 OpenAI API outages since January 27, 2026. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.openai.com

Minor March 13, 2026

Responses API errors when using background mode

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 13, 2026, 08:03 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 13, 2026, 08:03 PM UTC
Duration
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Affected: Responses
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Mar 13, 2026, 07:38 PM UTC

    Status: Investigating Starting around 11:50am PT, customers may be experiencing errors when calling the Responses API with background:true. We are currently investigating the issue. Affected components Responses (Degraded performance)

  2. resolved Mar 13, 2026, 08:03 PM UTC

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

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Minor March 7, 2026

Issues with Increased Codex Usage Rate

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 07, 2026, 01:00 AM UTC
Resolved
Mar 07, 2026, 01:00 AM UTC
Duration
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Affected: Codex Web
Timeline · 4 updates
  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)

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Minor March 5, 2026

High Error Rate in Realtime API (EU)

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 05, 2026, 07:19 AM UTC
Resolved
Mar 05, 2026, 07:19 AM UTC
Duration
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Affected: ResponsesFine-tuningImagesBatchAudioModerationsSoraCodex WebChatGPT AtlasEmbeddingsChat CompletionsRealtimeFilesFile uploadsConversationsAgentVoice modeConnectors/AppsCompliance APIDeep ResearchSearchGPTsImage GenerationLogin
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Mar 05, 2026, 06:19 AM UTC

    Status: Identified We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation. Affected components Images (Operational) Batch (Operational) Compliance API (Operational) GPTs (Operational) Login (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) Sora (Operational) Embeddings (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) Search (Operational) Conversations (Operational) Fine-tuning (Operational) Realtime (Degraded performance) Audio (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational) Login (Operational) File uploads (Operational) Moderations (Operational) Image Generation (Operational) Responses (Operational) Agent (Operational) Deep Research (Operational) Files (Operational) Chat Completions (Operational)

  2. monitoring Mar 05, 2026, 06:49 AM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Image Generation (Operational) Conversations (Operational) Batch (Operational) GPTs (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational) Search (Operational) Fine-tuning (Operational) Login (Operational) Files (Operational) Responses (Operational) Images (Operational) Moderations (Operational) Embeddings (Operational) Agent (Operational) File uploads (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) Chat Completions (Operational) Deep Research (Operational) Sora (Operational) Realtime (Degraded performance) Login (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) Audio (Operational) Compliance API (Operational)

  3. resolved Mar 05, 2026, 07:19 AM UTC

    Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Conversations (Operational) Chat Completions (Operational) Compliance API (Operational) File uploads (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) Files (Operational) Batch (Operational) Image Generation (Operational) Deep Research (Operational) Agent (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) Search (Operational) Realtime (Operational) GPTs (Operational) Login (Operational) Images (Operational) Audio (Operational) Sora (Operational) Fine-tuning (Operational) Embeddings (Operational) Moderations (Operational) Responses (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) Login (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational)

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Minor March 5, 2026

API Error Rates

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 05, 2026, 01:12 AM UTC
Resolved
Mar 05, 2026, 01:12 AM UTC
Duration
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Affected: ResponsesFine-tuningImagesBatchAudioModerationsCodex WebEmbeddingsChat CompletionsRealtimeFiles
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Mar 05, 2026, 12:47 AM UTC

    Status: Identified We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation. Affected components Images (Degraded performance) Audio (Degraded performance) Realtime (Degraded performance) Files (Degraded performance) Moderations (Degraded performance) Responses (Degraded performance) Login (Degraded performance) Sora (Degraded performance) Batch (Degraded performance) Chat Completions (Degraded performance) Fine-tuning (Degraded performance) Embeddings (Degraded performance)

  2. monitoring Mar 05, 2026, 01:07 AM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation. Affected components Moderations (Degraded performance) Responses (Degraded performance) Login (Operational) Images (Degraded performance) Chat Completions (Degraded performance) Realtime (Degraded performance) Embeddings (Degraded performance) Sora (Operational) Batch (Degraded performance) Audio (Degraded performance) Fine-tuning (Degraded performance) Files (Degraded performance)

  3. resolved Mar 05, 2026, 01:12 AM UTC

    Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Responses (Operational) Images (Operational) Chat Completions (Operational) Audio (Operational) Fine-tuning (Operational) Realtime (Operational) Moderations (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) Batch (Operational) Files (Operational) Embeddings (Operational)

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Minor March 3, 2026

Users may experience elevated error rate in Codex

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 03, 2026, 01:52 AM UTC
Resolved
Mar 03, 2026, 01:52 AM UTC
Duration
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Affected: Codex Web
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Mar 03, 2026, 01:50 AM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components Codex Web (Degraded performance)

  2. resolved Mar 03, 2026, 01:52 AM UTC

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

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Minor March 2, 2026

File uploads and file processing failing

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 02, 2026, 05:14 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 02, 2026, 05:14 PM UTC
Duration
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Affected: Codex WebChatGPT AtlasFile uploadsConversationsAgentVoice modeConnectors/AppsCompliance APIDeep ResearchSearchGPTsImage GenerationLogin
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Mar 02, 2026, 03:30 PM UTC

    Status: Investigating Starting around 6:45 AM PT on March 2, 2026, we began seeing elevated errors affecting file uploads and file processing. Some users may experience failures or delays when uploading files or while newly uploaded content is being processed. We are actively investigating and working to restore normal service. We’ll share another update within 30 minutes. Affected components Login (Degraded performance) Search (Degraded performance) Conversations (Degraded performance) Deep Research (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance) File uploads (Degraded performance) Voice mode (Degraded performance) Compliance API (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance) GPTs (Degraded performance) Agent (Degraded performance) Connectors/Apps (Degraded performance) ChatGPT Atlas (Degraded performance)

  2. identified Mar 02, 2026, 04:47 PM UTC

    Status: Identified We identified the issue and the team is working towards a mitigation Affected components ChatGPT Atlas (Degraded performance) Login (Degraded performance) Search (Degraded performance) Compliance API (Degraded performance) GPTs (Degraded performance) Deep Research (Degraded performance) File uploads (Degraded performance) Voice mode (Degraded performance) Conversations (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance) Agent (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance) Connectors/Apps (Degraded performance)

  3. resolved Mar 02, 2026, 05:14 PM UTC

    Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Login (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) Agent (Operational) Deep Research (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational) File uploads (Operational) Search (Operational) Conversations (Operational) Compliance API (Operational) Image Generation (Operational) GPTs (Operational)

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Minor February 25, 2026

Artifact generation (asking the model to generate a spreadsheet or slideshow) on ChatGPT is down for all users.

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 25, 2026, 09:05 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 25, 2026, 09:05 PM UTC
Duration
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Affected: Codex WebChatGPT AtlasFile uploadsConversationsAgentVoice modeConnectors/AppsCompliance APIDeep ResearchSearchGPTsImage GenerationLogin
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Feb 25, 2026, 06:15 PM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components ChatGPT Atlas (Degraded performance) Login (Degraded performance) File uploads (Degraded performance) Voice mode (Degraded performance) Conversations (Degraded performance) GPTs (Degraded performance) Agent (Degraded performance) Deep Research (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance) Search (Degraded performance) Compliance API (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance) Connectors/Apps (Degraded performance)

  2. resolved Feb 25, 2026, 09:05 PM UTC

    Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Compliance API (Operational) Image Generation (Operational) Deep Research (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational) Login (Operational) Search (Operational) GPTs (Operational) Agent (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) File uploads (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) Conversations (Operational)

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Minor February 19, 2026

Issues with API Platform Audit Logs

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 19, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC
Resolved
Feb 19, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC
Duration
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Affected: ResponsesFine-tuningImagesBatchAudioModerationsSoraCodex WebChatGPT AtlasEmbeddingsChat CompletionsRealtimeFilesFile uploadsConversationsAgentVoice modeConnectors/AppsCompliance APIDeep ResearchSearchGPTsImage GenerationLogin
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Feb 19, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC

    Status: Resolved We have observed issues with API Platform audit logs. Affected components Image Generation (Operational) Embeddings (Operational) Moderations (Operational) Compliance API (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational) Conversations (Operational) Images (Operational) Files (Operational) Login (Operational) Sora (Operational) Login (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) Fine-tuning (Operational) Realtime (Operational) Deep Research (Operational) Batch (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) File uploads (Operational) Search (Operational) Chat Completions (Operational) Responses (Operational) GPTs (Operational) Agent (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) Audio (Operational)

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Minor February 16, 2026

Increased error rates on Codex Cloud

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 16, 2026, 05:47 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 16, 2026, 05:47 PM UTC
Duration
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Affected: Codex Web
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Feb 16, 2026, 05:27 PM UTC

    Status: Identified We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for across Codex Cloud. We are working on implementing a mitigation. Affected components Codex Web (Degraded performance)

  2. monitoring Feb 16, 2026, 05:41 PM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Codex Web (Degraded performance)

  3. resolved Feb 16, 2026, 05:47 PM UTC

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

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Minor February 12, 2026

high error rate in text-embedding-3-small

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 12, 2026, 05:52 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 12, 2026, 05:52 PM UTC
Duration
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Affected: Embeddings
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Feb 12, 2026, 02:39 PM UTC

    Status: Identified We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation. Affected components Embeddings (Degraded performance)

  2. monitoring Feb 12, 2026, 04:10 PM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. You may still be experiencing high latency. Affected components Embeddings (Operational)

  3. resolved Feb 12, 2026, 05:52 PM UTC

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

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Minor February 9, 2026

Codex Cloud issues due to Github Dependencies

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 09, 2026, 08:23 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 09, 2026, 08:23 PM UTC
Duration
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Affected: Codex Web
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Feb 09, 2026, 04:30 PM UTC

    Status: Investigating Codex Cloud is experiencing issues related to Github functionality due to outage in Github dependencies. Affected components Codex Web (Degraded performance)

  2. monitoring Feb 09, 2026, 08:22 PM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Codex Web (Operational)

  3. resolved Feb 09, 2026, 08:23 PM UTC

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

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Minor February 5, 2026

Increased ChatGPT errors for some users

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 05, 2026, 12:48 AM UTC
Resolved
Feb 05, 2026, 12:48 AM UTC
Duration
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Affected: Codex WebChatGPT AtlasFile uploadsConversationsAgentVoice modeConnectors/AppsCompliance APIDeep ResearchSearchGPTsImage GenerationLogin
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Feb 04, 2026, 10:09 PM UTC

    Status: Identified We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation. Affected components Login (Degraded performance) File uploads (Degraded performance) Voice mode (Degraded performance) Search (Degraded performance) Compliance API (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance) Agent (Degraded performance) Conversations (Degraded performance) GPTs (Degraded performance) Deep Research (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance) Connectors/Apps (Degraded performance) ChatGPT Atlas (Degraded performance)

  2. monitoring Feb 05, 2026, 12:19 AM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components GPTs (Operational) Agent (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) File uploads (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) Image Generation (Operational) Deep Research (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational) Login (Operational) Search (Operational) Conversations (Operational) Compliance API (Operational)

  3. resolved Feb 05, 2026, 12:48 AM UTC

    Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Compliance API (Operational) Image Generation (Operational) Agent (Operational) Deep Research (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) File uploads (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) Conversations (Operational) GPTs (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational) Login (Operational) Search (Operational)

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Minor February 4, 2026

ChatGPT Availability Impacted

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 04, 2026, 09:04 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 04, 2026, 09:04 PM UTC
Duration
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Affected: Codex WebChatGPT AtlasFile uploadsConversationsAgentVoice modeConnectors/AppsCompliance APIDeep ResearchSearchGPTsImage GenerationLogin
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. identified Feb 04, 2026, 05:05 PM UTC

    Status: Identified We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation. Affected components GPTs (Degraded performance) Deep Research (Degraded performance) Connectors/Apps (Degraded performance) ChatGPT Atlas (Degraded performance) Login (Degraded performance) Voice mode (Degraded performance) Search (Degraded performance) Conversations (Degraded performance) Compliance API (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance) Agent (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance) File uploads (Degraded performance)

  2. investigating Feb 04, 2026, 05:35 PM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components ChatGPT Atlas (Degraded performance) Voice mode (Degraded performance) Search (Degraded performance) Conversations (Degraded performance) Compliance API (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance) Agent (Degraded performance) Deep Research (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance) Login (Degraded performance) File uploads (Degraded performance) GPTs (Degraded performance) Connectors/Apps (Degraded performance)

  3. monitoring Feb 04, 2026, 05:43 PM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Agent (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational) Login (Operational) Search (Operational) Conversations (Operational) Compliance API (Operational) Image Generation (Operational) Deep Research (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) File uploads (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) GPTs (Operational)

  4. resolved Feb 04, 2026, 09:04 PM UTC

    Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Login (Operational) File uploads (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) Search (Operational) Image Generation (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) Conversations (Operational) Compliance API (Operational) GPTs (Operational) Agent (Operational) Deep Research (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational)

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Minor February 3, 2026

Elevated error rates for finetuning jobs

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 03, 2026, 11:32 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 03, 2026, 11:32 PM UTC
Duration
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Affected: Fine-tuning
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Feb 03, 2026, 08:55 PM UTC

    Status: Identified We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation. Affected components Fine-tuning (Degraded performance)

  2. monitoring Feb 03, 2026, 10:19 PM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Fine-tuning (Degraded performance)

  3. resolved Feb 03, 2026, 11:32 PM UTC

    Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Fine-tuning (Operational)

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Minor February 3, 2026

Elevated error rates for ChatGPT and Platform users

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 03, 2026, 10:14 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 03, 2026, 10:14 PM UTC
Duration
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Affected: Codex WebChatGPT AtlasFile uploadsConversationsAgentVoice modeConnectors/AppsCompliance APIDeep ResearchSearchGPTsImage GenerationLogin
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. identified Feb 03, 2026, 08:32 PM UTC

    Status: Identified We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation. Affected components GPTs (Degraded performance) Agent (Degraded performance) File uploads (Degraded performance) Voice mode (Degraded performance) Search (Degraded performance) Compliance API (Degraded performance) Deep Research (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance) Connectors/Apps (Degraded performance) ChatGPT Atlas (Degraded performance) Login (Degraded performance) Conversations (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance)

  2. identified Feb 03, 2026, 08:44 PM UTC

    Status: Identified We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation. Affected components Login (Degraded performance) File uploads (Degraded performance) Voice mode (Degraded performance) Search (Degraded performance) Compliance API (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance) GPTs (Degraded performance) Login (Degraded performance) Conversations (Degraded performance) Agent (Degraded performance) Deep Research (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance) Connectors/Apps (Degraded performance) ChatGPT Atlas (Degraded performance)

  3. monitoring Feb 03, 2026, 09:21 PM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have identified the issue, applied the necessary mitigations and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Login (Degraded performance) File uploads (Degraded performance) Voice mode (Degraded performance) Search (Degraded performance) Conversations (Degraded performance) GPTs (Degraded performance) Agent (Degraded performance) Login (Degraded performance) Compliance API (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance) Deep Research (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance) Connectors/Apps (Degraded performance) ChatGPT Atlas (Degraded performance)

  4. resolved Feb 03, 2026, 10:14 PM UTC

    Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Codex Web (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) Conversations (Operational) Compliance API (Operational) Image Generation (Operational) GPTs (Operational) Login (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational) Login (Operational) File uploads (Operational) Search (Operational) Agent (Operational) Deep Research (Operational)

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Minor January 27, 2026

Elevated Codex Error Rate

Detected by Pingoru
Jan 27, 2026, 11:03 AM UTC
Resolved
Jan 27, 2026, 11:03 AM UTC
Duration
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Affected: Codex Web
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Jan 27, 2026, 09:01 AM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components Codex Web (Degraded performance)

  2. monitoring Jan 27, 2026, 10:44 AM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Codex Web (Degraded performance)

  3. resolved Jan 27, 2026, 11:03 AM UTC

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

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