OpenAI API outage on October 9, 2026: Workspace admins may be unable to manage plugins
OpenAI reported an incident affecting OpenAI API for 1 hour 38 minutes on 9 October 2026, from 21:48 to 23:26 UTC.
Resolved
Official incident reported by OpenAI
- Started
- 21:48
- 9 Oct 2026 UTC
- Resolved
- 23:26
- 9 Oct 2026 UTC
- Duration
- 1h 38m
- 1 hour 38 minutes
- Impact
- Major
- as rated by OpenAI
- Updates
- 3
- posted by OpenAI
Timeline
All times UTC.
Official incident from OpenAI
Workspace admins may be unable to manage plugins
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Official
Investigating
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.
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Official
Monitoring
We are seeing recovery in workspace administrators’ ability to view and manage plugin availability and settings. We are monitoring to ensure service remains stable.
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Official
Resolved
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
"Official" rows are quoted from OpenAI's public status page, status.openai.com. Very long posts are shortened.
What our checkpoints saw
HostTracker's checkpoints, which test api.openai.com from several locations, recorded no outage of 5 minutes or longer during this incident. A provider can report a problem that affects only some features, regions or accounts, which a check of the main address does not see. The live OpenAI API status shows what our checks see right now.
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