Issues with Codex

What to do

• Check whether you use OpenAI Codex API, Codex Web, CLI, VS Code extension. Check your stack

  Paste a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide/stack to see every provider you depend on.

• Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 56m it lasted.

  Anything that failed between 2026-09-25 22:58 UTC and 2026-09-25 23:54 UTC may need a replay.

• Subscribe to OpenAI's feed to hear about the next one first. RSS feed

  https://down.guide/feed?provider=openai works in Slack (/feed subscribe), Discord feed bots and any RSS reader.

Root cause

We have identified root cause and are moving towards mitigation.

Updates from OpenAI 6

1. identifiedSep 25, 2026, 10:58 PM UTC

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

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2. identifiedSep 25, 2026, 11:03 PM UTC

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

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3. identifiedSep 25, 2026, 11:19 PM UTC

   Login via API key will unblock access at this time.

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4. identifiedSep 25, 2026, 11:34 PM UTC

   We have identified root cause and are moving towards mitigation.

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5. monitoringSep 25, 2026, 11:45 PM UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

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6. resolvedSep 25, 2026, 11:54 PM UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Corrections

None so far.

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