OpenAI incident

Degraded Performance with Codex Cloud Tasks

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

OpenAI experienced a minor incident on May 8, 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 08, 2026, 04:17 PM UTC
Resolved
May 08, 2026, 04:17 PM UTC
Duration
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Detected by Pingoru
May 08, 2026, 04:17 PM UTC

Affected components

Codex WebCodex APICLIVS Code extensionApp

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 08, 2026, 03:07 PM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are observing an issue with follow-up prompts to Codex Cloud tasks failing at higher than expected rate. We are investigating the issue. Affected components Codex Web (Degraded performance)

  2. resolved May 08, 2026, 04:17 PM UTC

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