OpenAI incident

Issues with Increased Codex Usage Rate

Resolved after 6 hours 25 minutes, affecting Codex Web, on March 6, 2026.

identified Mar 06, 2026, 10:08 PM UTC

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.

Started: Mar 06, 2026, 06:35 PM UTC
Resolved: Mar 07, 2026, 01:00 AM UTC
Duration: 6h 25m
Detected by Pingoru: Mar 06, 2026, 06:35 PM UTC

Affected components

Codex Web

Update timeline

identified Mar 06, 2026, 06:35 PM UTC

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 Mar 06, 2026, 07:20 PM UTC

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 Mar 06, 2026, 10:08 PM UTC

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.
resolved Mar 07, 2026, 01:00 AM UTC

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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