OpenAI experienced a minor incident on September 25, 2026 affecting Codex Web and Codex API and 1 more component, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- identified Sep 25, 2026, 10:58 PM UTC
Status: Identified We have identified that users are experiencing a codex outage. We have identified the internal issue and are heading towards a mitigation. Affected components Codex Web (Full outage) CLI (Full outage) VS Code extension (Full outage) Codex API (Full outage)
- identified Sep 25, 2026, 11:03 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 Codex API (Full outage) Codex Web (Full outage) CLI (Full outage) VS Code extension (Full outage)
- identified Sep 25, 2026, 11:19 PM UTC
Status: Identified Login via API key will unblock access at this time. Affected components Codex Web (Full outage) CLI (Full outage) VS Code extension (Full outage) Codex API (Full outage)
- identified Sep 25, 2026, 11:34 PM UTC
Status: Identified We have identified root cause and are moving towards mitigation. Affected components Codex Web (Full outage) CLI (Full outage) VS Code extension (Full outage) Codex API (Full outage)
- monitoring Sep 25, 2026, 11:45 PM UTC
Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Codex Web (Full outage) CLI (Full outage) VS Code extension (Full outage) Codex API (Full outage)
- resolved Sep 25, 2026, 11:54 PM UTC
Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Codex API (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) CLI (Operational) VS Code extension (Operational)