Incident report · read from OpenAI's status page

OpenAI incident: Issues with Codex

Resolved after 55 m (25 Sep 2026, 22:58–23:54 UTC), impact critical, affecting Codex Web, CLI, VS Code extension and Codex API.

Timeline

1. 25 Sep 2026 at 22:58 UTC identified

   We have identified that users are experiencing a codex outage. We have identified the internal issue and are heading towards a mitigation.

2. 25 Sep 2026 at 23:03 UTC identified

   We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

3. 25 Sep 2026 at 23:19 UTC identified

   Login via API key will unblock access at this time.

4. 25 Sep 2026 at 23:34 UTC identified

   We have identified root cause and are moving towards mitigation.

5. 25 Sep 2026 at 23:45 UTC monitoring

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

6. 25 Sep 2026 at 23:54 UTC resolved

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Affected components

• Codex · Codex Web: major outage for 55 m
• Codex · CLI: major outage for 55 m
• Codex · VS Code extension: major outage for 55 m
• Codex · Codex API: major outage for 55 m

What the crowd did

• 0 clicks, 2 zombies at their worst, 2 breaches, over 58 m — the siege in full

That is this site's own record of the crowd at OpenAI's gate, not anything OpenAI published.

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.

Last checked 30 Oct 2026 at 16:27 UTC.

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