OpenAI Platform outage on July 20, 2026
OpenAI Platform users likely saw failed connections, degraded availability, or session instability for this AI service. The incident reached Major severity and lasted 3h 23m. The stored report window does not show a preserved user-report spike.
Status: InvestigatingUsers 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/8vfyvq16hzh9Affected components Codex Web (Degraded performance) Connectors/Apps (Degraded performance) CLI (Operational) VS Code extension (Operational)
Deterministic readout · awaiting AI summary pass
Incident detected
Major confidence crossed the incident threshold for OpenAI Platform: elevated errors for GitHub-dependent ChatGPT and Codex workflows.
Marked resolved
The incident was closed after 2h 55m of observed impact.
No per-source signal payloads were preserved in this incident's snapshot window.
Confidence scoring
80.00The incident reached 80.00 peak confidence across 162 stored status snapshots.
User reports
0 / 15mNo elevated user-report volume was preserved in the incident window snapshots.
Status samples
0 affectedThe incident row exists, but the bounded snapshot window does not include affected status samples.
Recovery signal
ResolvedRecovery was recorded at Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 04:03 AM UTC.