OpenAI incident

Elevated Codex API authentication errors

Minor Resolved

Started

August 20, 2026 at 04:58 PM UTC

Duration

53 min

Resolved

August 20, 2026 at 05:52 PM UTC

Updates timeline

  1. Identified

    Some users may encounter errors when using Codex with API authentication. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

  2. Monitoring

    We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

  3. Resolved

    All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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