Incident report · read from OpenAI's status page

OpenAI incident: Elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex

Resolved after 1 h 57 m (3 Sep 2026, 14:58–16:55 UTC), impact minor, affecting Login, File uploads, Voice mode, Search, Conversations, Compliance API, Image Generation, GPTs, Agent, Deep Research, Codex Web, Connectors/Apps, ChatGPT Atlas, CLI, Codex in ChatGPT Desktop, VS Code extension, Codex API, ChatGPT Work and Sites.

Timeline

  1. investigating

    We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

  2. monitoring

    We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

  3. resolved

    The issue causing elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex has been resolved. Some Codex remote control users may need to pair their mobile device again following this incident.

Affected components

Source

OpenAI's own report of this incident, on OpenAI's status page. This page is a record of OpenAI's own report; where the two disagree, theirs is right.

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