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
- Identified
Some users may encounter errors when using Codex with API authentication. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- Monitoring
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- Resolved
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
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