Investigating unexpected usage limit resets

lowOpenAISep 9, 2026 17:30

api

API Issue

Summary

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Impact

none

Timeline

Sep 9, 2026 17:29

[investigating] Some Codex users may be experiencing unexpected usage limit resets.

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Sep 9, 2026 17:40

[identified] We've identified the issue and are working on a fix.

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Sep 9, 2026 17:45

[monitoring] We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

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Sep 9, 2026 17:54

[resolved] All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Lessons Learned

⚠OpenAI has experienced 163 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to api have occurred 991 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.