OpenAI outage: Workspace admins may be unable to manage plugins

1. resolvedOct 9, 2026, 23:26 UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

2. monitoringOct 9, 2026, 22:52 UTC

   We are seeing recovery in workspace administrators’ ability to view and manage plugin availability and settings. We are monitoring to ensure service remains stable.

3. investigatingOct 9, 2026, 21:48 UTC

   We are investigating an issue affecting some ChatGPT workspace administrators’ ability to view and manage plugin availability and settings. Some users may also see plugins as unavailable. We will provide another update as soon as we have more information.

What APIStatus.watch saw

• Oct 9, 2026, 21:03 UTCdegraded → partial outage

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