Outage in OpenAI
Degraded Performance with Codex Cloud Tasks
Resolved Minor
May 08, 2026 - Started 2 days ago
- Lasted about 1 hour
Incident Report
Summary AI Generated
OpenAI experienced degraded performance with Codex Cloud tasks, where follow-up prompts were failing at higher than expected rates. The incident affected both ChatGPT and Codex services for 1.2 hours. The team investigated the issue, though the summary does not specify the final resolution method.
We are observing an issue with follow-up prompts to Codex Cloud tasks failing at higher than expected rate. We are investigating the issue.
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2 days ago - at 05/08/2026 03:07PM
We are observing an issue with follow-up prompts to Codex Cloud tasks failing at higher than expected rate. We are investigating the issue.
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