Outage in OpenAI
Elevated Codex API authentication errors
Resolved Minor
August 20, 2026 - Started about 7 hours ago
- Lasted about 1 hour
Incident Report
Summary AI Generated
OpenAI's Codex API experienced elevated authentication errors for approximately 54 minutes, preventing some users from successfully authenticating API requests. The issue was identified and a mitigation was applied, with the service entering a monitoring phase to confirm recovery.
Some users may encounter errors when using Codex with API authentication.
We are working on implementing a mitigation.
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MONITORING
about 7 hours ago - at 08/20/2026 05:15PM
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
IDENTIFIED
about 7 hours ago - at 08/20/2026 04:58PM
Some users may encounter errors when using Codex with API authentication.
We are working on implementing a mitigation.
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