OpenAI incident

Increase in users hitting Codex rate limits

OpenAI is currently experiencing a major incident affecting Codex Web and Codex API and 1 more component, which began 3h ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.

Started
May 22, 2026, 07:16 PM UTC
Resolved
Ongoing
Duration
● 3h 27m
Detected by Pingoru
May 22, 2026, 07:16 PM UTC

Affected components

Codex WebCodex APICLIVS Code extensionApp

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 22, 2026, 04:37 PM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components Codex Web (Degraded performance) CLI (Degraded performance) App (Degraded performance) VS Code extension (Degraded performance) Codex API (Degraded performance)

  2. monitoring May 22, 2026, 07:16 PM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components VS Code extension (Degraded performance) Codex API (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance) CLI (Degraded performance) App (Degraded performance)

  3. monitoring May 22, 2026, 07:16 PM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components VS Code extension (Degraded performance) Codex API (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance) CLI (Degraded performance) App (Degraded performance)