Elevated errors for GitHub-dependent ChatGPT and Codex workflows - OpenAI Outage

Summary

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Impact

minor

Timeline

Jul 20, 2026 00:34

[investigating] Users may experience failures or delays in ChatGPT and Codex workflows that depend on GitHub. This is related to an active GitHub API partial outage and degraded GitHub Actions.

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+5m

Jul 20, 2026 00:39

[investigating] Users may experience failures or delays in ChatGPT and Codex workflows that depend on GitHub. This mostly should impact Codex web and code review for PRs on Github. This is related to an active GitHub API partial outage and degraded GitHub Actions. [https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8vfyvq16hzh9](https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8vfyvq16hzh9 "https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8vfyvq16hzh9")

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+1h 10m

Jul 20, 2026 01:49

[investigating] Users may experience failures or delays in ChatGPT and Codex workflows that depend on GitHub. This mostly should impact Codex web and code review for PRs on Github. This is related to an active GitHub API partial outage and degraded GitHub Actions. [https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8vfyvq16hzh9](https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8vfyvq16hzh9 "https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8vfyvq16hzh9")

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+1h 3m

Jul 20, 2026 02:52

[investigating] Users may experience failures or delays in ChatGPT and Codex workflows that depend on GitHub. This mostly should impact Codex web and code review for PRs on Github. This is related to an active GitHub API partial outage and degraded GitHub Actions. [https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8vfyvq16hzh9](https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8vfyvq16hzh9 "https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8vfyvq16hzh9")

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+34m

Jul 20, 2026 03:25

[monitoring] We are monitoring the recovery.

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+8m

Jul 20, 2026 03:34

[resolved] All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Lessons Learned

⚠OpenAI has experienced 112 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to api have occurred 746 times across all providers in the past year. This is one of the most common failure categories in cloud infrastructure.

💡This incident is categorized as: API Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.