Enterprise Dots had a two-hour outage Thursday — business users could not send messages
OpenAI's status page recorded a roughly two-hour "Degraded Performance of Dots on Enterprise" incident on Oct 22: users could not send messages to dots, most impact hit enterprise customers, and all services are now fully recovered.
What happened
On Thursday, Oct 22, OpenAI's status page logged a "Degraded Performance of Dots on Enterprise" incident. At 2:51 PM the team said users were experiencing failures sending messages to their dots; by 2:59 PM it confirmed the issue and said the majority of impact was on enterprise customers. The incident was marked resolved at 4:55 PM, about two hours after it started, with all impacted services fully recovered.
Why it matters
Dots are OpenAI's always-on AI agents inside ChatGPT, and this is the first incident in the status history that singles out Dots on Enterprise as the affected component. It adds to a noisy reliability stretch — the same history shows multiple ChatGPT, Codex, and API incidents across Oct 20-22. For enterprise buyers evaluating dots for production workflows, it is another data point on the agents' early stability.
Source: OpenAI status page — Degraded Performance of Dots on Enterprise
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