ChatGPT Status · History · Incident #6572

RESOLVED

Elevated Codex API authentication errors

Minor · Started Aug 20, 2026 · 4:58 PM

Duration

53m
Severity

Minor
Detection lead

—
User reports

Peak 1/hr

Summary

Elevated Codex API authentication errors

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Started

Aug 20, 2026 · 4:58 PM
Resolved

Aug 20, 2026 · 5:52 PM
Duration

53m
Severity

Minor

Event timeline

How this incident unfolded

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Identified
Aug 20 · 4:58 PM ChatGPT

Some users may encounter errors when using Codex with API authentication. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
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Monitoring
Aug 20 · 5:15 PM ChatGPT

We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
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Resolved
Aug 20 · 5:52 PM ChatGPT

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

User reports · incident window

Report volume over time

Hourly report count. Red bars mark the incident window.

Peak: 1 reports/hr

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