Outage in OpenAI
Issues with Increased Codex Usage Rate
Resolved Minor
March 06, 2026 - Started about 9 hours ago
- Lasted about 6 hours
Incident Report
Summary AI Generated
OpenAI experienced an issue where Codex usage was being consumed faster than expected, causing users to hit rate limits sooner than intended. The incident affected both ChatGPT and Codex services for 6.5 hours. OpenAI worked on implementing a mitigation to resolve the accelerated usage consumption problem.
We have identified an issue causing Codex usage to be consumed faster than expected, which may cause some users to hit rate limits sooner than intended.
We are working on implementing a mitigation.
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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
IDENTIFIED
about 5 hours ago - at 03/06/2026 10:08PM
We have identified an issue causing Codex usage to be consumed faster than expected, which may cause some users to hit rate limits sooner than intended.
We are working on implementing a mitigation.
IDENTIFIED
about 8 hours ago - at 03/06/2026 07:20PM
We have identified an issue causing Codex usage to be consumed faster than expected, which may cause some users to hit rate limits sooner than intended.
We are working on implementing a mitigation.
IDENTIFIED
about 9 hours ago - at 03/06/2026 06:35PM
We have identified an issue causing Codex usage to be consumed faster than expected, which may cause some users to hit rate limits sooner than intended.
We are working on implementing a mitigation.
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