DigitalOcean outage history

Biggest DigitalOcean outages

Ranked by the official impact level, then by how long they lasted. Each has its own page with the cause, the fix time and every official update.

1. Aug 24, 2026: Cloud Control Panel and API 25 hours 50 min · rated "Critical"
2. Aug 19, 2026: Major Service Interruption in MKC1 8 hours 25 min · rated "Critical"
3. Jul 27, 2026: Agent Platform Requests Returning HTTP 500 Errors 20 hours 53 min · rated "Major"
4. Jun 11, 2026: DeepSeek V4 Pro is returning HTTP 429 "Rate limit exceeded" 3 hours 18 min · rated "Major"
5. Jul 4, 2026: Limited access to Deepseek V4 Pro model 2 hours 40 min · rated "Major"

Every smaller DigitalOcean incident

Minor and short incidents from the DigitalOcean status page, newest first, each with a line from the official updates. Times are UTC.

October 2026

• Oct 13, 2026, 17:09 UTC · App Platform Deployments

  duration not stated · marked as no impact

  "Between 04:34 and 12:15 UTC, customers experienced service interruptions affecting App Platform deployment operations. During this window, customers may have been unable to deploy new applications or scale existing deployments."

• Oct 11, 2026, 22:01 UTC · DNS Resolution for Managed Kubernetes

  1 hour 27 min · rated "Minor"

  "Our Engineering team has resolved the external DNS resolution failures affecting Managed Kubernetes across multiple regions. Applications running on Managed Kubernetes can now resolve external domain names."

• Oct 5, 2026, 10:38 UTC · VPC Networking Availability

  1 hour 35 min · rated "Minor"

  "Our Engineering team fully resolved the VPC Networking disruption as of 10:29 UTC. Customers can now create and delete VPC peering connections, subnets, and routes as expected."

• Oct 3, 2026, 14:51 UTC · A Network Disruption in BLR1 Region Impacted Multiple Products (Resolved)

  duration not stated · marked as no impact

  "From 11:59 UTC to 13:02 UTC on October 3, 2026, a networking disruption in our BLR1 region affected multiple products, including Monitoring, App Platform, Managed Databases, Functions, Load Balancers, Spaces, and the Cloud Control Panel."

September 2026

• Sep 16, 2026, 09:48 UTC · Support Portal Service Disruption

  11 hours 21 min · rated "Minor"

  "From 08:06 UTC to 13:41 UTC, users may have experienced issues accessing the Support Portal, creating new support tickets, or reviewing existing support requests."

• Sep 9, 2026, 10:47 UTC · Power Degradation impacting GPU Performance in ATL1

  1 hour 38 min · rated "Minor"

  "This incident is now resolved. Power redundancy has been fully restored, and we have confirmed that customer impact has been mitigated. We are closing this incident."

August 2026

• Aug 23, 2026, 05:11 UTC · Managed Databases Creation

  9 hours 22 min · rated "Minor"

  "Our Engineering team has resolved the issue preventing cluster creation on Managed Databases in the NYC3 and NYC1 regions. Customers can now create new Managed Databases Clusters normally."

• Aug 21, 2026, 12:59 UTC · Container Registry and Spaces Accessibility

  1 hour 53 min · rated "Minor"

  "Our Engineering team has confirmed that the issue impacting Container Registry and Spaces accessibility has been resolved."

• Aug 13, 2026, 14:59 UTC · Volume Attach/Detach events in FRA1

  duration not stated · marked as no impact

  "Between Aug 13, 09:50 UTC and 14:30 UTC, customers in the FRA1 region experienced an issue affecting Block Storage Volumes attachment and detachment operations on Droplets and Managed Kubernetes clusters."

• Aug 8, 2026, 18:57 UTC · Account Registration, Droplets, and Related Services

  6 hours 3 min · rated "Minor"

  "Our Engineering team confirms the full resolution of the issue affecting all impacted services, including new account registration, Droplet Creation, Reserved IPs, Automated Backups and Snapshots, Droplet Autoscale, DOKS clusters, GenAI..."

• Aug 6, 2026, 19:01 UTC · Functions on App Platform

  2 hours 4 min · rated "Minor"

  "Our Engineering team has confirmed that the issue affecting Functions on App Platform has been fully resolved. Functions builds, deploys, and requests to Functions endpoints are all working as expected."

• Aug 6, 2026, 16:33 UTC · Multiple Services Availability

  duration not stated · marked as no impact

  "Between Aug 6, 06:42 UTC and 09:08 UTC, customers experienced failures with write operations across multiple DigitalOcean services, including Managed Databases, DOKS, Cloud Firewalls, DNS, Spaces, Block Storage Volumes, and event..."

• Aug 4, 2026, 16:13 UTC · Spaces Cold Storage Billing

  5 hours 29 min · rated "Minor"

  "As of 21:06 UTC, our Engineering team has resolved the issue affecting Spaces Cold Storage billing."

• Aug 3, 2026, 13:58 UTC · Cloud Control Panel Access

  4 hours 2 min · rated "Minor"

  "Between 09:36 and 13:30 UTC on August 3, some customers experienced intermittent errors while accessing the DigitalOcean Cloud Control Panel. We renewed the affected internal certificates and restored access."

July 2026

• Jul 29, 2026, 17:56 UTC · Response Degradation Impacting Kimi-K3

  12 hours 19 min · rated "Minor"

  "Our Engineering team has resolved the issue causing empty or broken responses from Kimi-K3. If you continue to experience any problems, please open a ticket with our Support team. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused."

• Jul 24, 2026, 10:36 UTC · Network Connectivity from India to NYC

  2 hours 6 min · rated "Minor"

  "Between 07:46 UTC & 10:24 UTC today, some users in India accessing resources in the NYC region may have experienced connectivity issues. The impact was limited to users using Airtel as their ISP."

• Jul 23, 2026, 11:16 UTC · Llama-4-Maverick Model Availability

  1 hour 20 min · rated "Minor"

  "Our Engineering team is currently investigating an issue where the llama-4-maverick model is unavailable. Users may experience HTTP 500 errors while using this model with Serverless Inference. We apologize for the inconvenience."

• Jul 22, 2026, 16:50 UTC · Gradient AI Serverless Inference Requests Timing Out for qwen3.5-397b-a17b

  2 hours 52 min · rated "Minor"

  "This incident has been resolved."

• Jul 19, 2026, 09:51 UTC · Block Storage Volume NYC1, NYC3, SGP1, SYD1 and BLR1

  5 hours 41 min · rated "Minor"

  "Our Engineering team has confirmed that the issue regarding volume attachment to Droplets in the NYC1, NYC3, SGP1, SYD1, and BLR1 regions has been fully resolved, and all services are now operating normally."

• Jul 19, 2026, 06:57 UTC · Networking in BLR1

  2 hours 54 min · rated "Minor"

  "Our engineering team has resolved the outbound network connectivity issue in the BLR1 region. If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team. We apologize for any inconvenience."

• Jul 16, 2026, 13:39 UTC · Reserved IP routing in TOR1

  3 hours 45 min · rated "Minor"

  "Our Engineering team has confirmed that the underlying issue affecting Reserved IP routing in the TOR1 region has been fully resolved, and services are now operating normally."

• Jul 13, 2026, 19:04 UTC · Serverless Inference - Gemma4 Latency Issues Causing Timeouts & Slow Responses

  2 days 3 hours · rated "Minor"

  "The deployed fix has successfully restored full functionality, and our monitoring shows that system performance has completely stabilized. Response times for all Gemma 4 inference workflows have returned to normal baseline levels."

• Jul 9, 2026, 20:31 UTC · Kubernetes Deployments in NYC1

  28 hours 56 min · rated "Minor"

  "The issue affecting Kubernetes deployments in the NYC1 region has been resolved. Our investigation found intermittent DNS timeouts affecting a small number of DOKS clusters, with affected worker nodes running on shared-CPU Droplets."

• Jul 4, 2026, 14:42 UTC · Droplet Actions in NYC3

  27 minutes · marked as no impact

  "Our Engineering team has confirmed that the issue impacting Droplets in the NYC3 region has been fully resolved. Users can now perform actions on their Droplets or create new Droplets in this region without any issues."

• Jul 2, 2026, 22:04 UTC · Managed Database Clusters

  10 hours 16 min · rated "Minor"

  "Our engineering team has resolved the issue with Managed Database Clusters. All database systems should now be operating normally. If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team."

• Jul 1, 2026, 11:35 UTC · DNS Lookup Failures for Managed Database

  4 hours 53 min · rated "Minor"

  "The intermittent DNS lookup failures between Managed Kubernetes and Managed Database hostnames in the FRA1 region have been resolved for now but please let us know if you see the issue again."

• Jul 1, 2026, 11:13 UTC · Droplet Resize

  2 hours 15 min · marked as no impact

  "Our Engineering team has confirmed that the issue impacting Droplet resizes using the "Downscale Anytime" option has been fully resolved. Users can now resize their Droplets using the "Downscale Anytime" option without any issues."

• Jul 1, 2026, 06:25 UTC · Agent Timeouts While Retrieving Data from Knowledge Bases

  21 hours 13 min · marked as no impact

  "This incident has been resolved, and our teams continue to monitor the results. If you experience any further issues, please contact support."

June 2026

• Jun 27, 2026, 18:24 UTC · Droplet Backup Service

  duration not stated · marked as no impact

  "Between 00:00 UTC & 16:00 UTC today, our Engineering team identified an issue affecting backup operations on Droplets. During this period, backups scheduled within this window may not have been created and may appear as missing."

• Jun 27, 2026, 04:43 UTC · Anthropic Inference Model Availability

  32 minutes · marked as no impact

  "Our Engineering team has resolved the issue that was causing HTTP 400 errors for requests to Anthropic models. Users should now be able to access Anthropic models without any issues."

• Jun 19, 2026, 14:00 UTC · Monitoring Graphs in the Cloud Control Panel

  2 hours 37 min · rated "Minor"

  "Between 13:22 & 14:26 UTC today, users have experienced missing monitoring graphs for Droplets (with DO agent installed), Load Balancers, Databases, and other services within the Cloud Control Panel."

• Jun 16, 2026, 22:00 UTC · Intermittent 500 Errors on Serverless/GenAI Inference API

  2 hours 29 min · marked as no impact

  "The connectivity issues affecting our Serverless/GenAI Inference API have been fully resolved. Our engineering teams successfully completed the connectivity restoration."

• Jun 4, 2026, 10:12 UTC · DNS API Service

  1 hour 35 min · rated "Minor"

  "Between 09:41 and 11:24 UTC, our Engineering team identified an issue impacting the DNS API service."

May 2026

• May 29, 2026, 00:14 UTC · App Platform Deployments

  7 hours 44 min · rated "Minor"

  "Our Engineering team has confirmed that the issue impacting build failures on App Platform has been resolved at 07:00 am UTC. All App Platform builds are now succeeding as expected."

• May 20, 2026, 12:08 UTC · Cloud Firewall

  55 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "Between 06:35 UTC & 12:36 UTC today, our engineering team identified an issue impacting the Cloud Firewall. During this period, users might have encountered issues while updating their firewall rules."

• May 20, 2026, 05:35 UTC · Cloud Firewall

  2 hours 12 min · rated "Minor"

  "Our Engineering team has verified that the issue causing incorrect Cloud Firewall rules to display on the cloud panel is fully resolved."

• May 20, 2026, 01:05 UTC · Block Storage Volume Performance

  4 hours 9 min · rated "Minor"

  "From 00:00 UTC to 01:40 UTC, users may have experienced degraded write performance and intermittent impacts to workloads dependent on Block Storage Volumes in the NYC3 region."

• May 15, 2026, 01:21 UTC · Anthropic reported outage that's impacting access to their Serverless Inference models

  39 minutes · rated "Major"

  "As of the current time, our Engineering team has confirmed that the issue with Serverless Inference has been resolved. The root cause of the issue was an outage with our provider, Anthropic, which affected users of Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4."

• May 14, 2026, 13:57 UTC · DNS service, Certificates and Managed MongoDB

  6 hours 49 min · rated "Minor"

  "As of 19:50 UTC, the issue affecting the DNS service has been fully resolved, and all related services, including Let's Encrypt certificate issuance and Managed MongoDB provisioning, are now operating normally."

• May 12, 2026, 10:50 UTC · GradientAI: Agent Platform Playground Interaction Errors

  47 minutes · rated "Major"

  "The remediation for the issue affecting the GradientAI Agent Platform Playground has been fully implemented, and the service is operating normally."

• May 9, 2026, 11:15 UTC · Control Panel Errors - Unable to Enable 2FA and Google/GitHub

  3 hours 27 min · rated "Minor"

  "Between 5:35 and 14:25 UTC today, our Engineering team identified an issue that prevents enabling Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) and Google/GitHub authentication through the Control Panel."

• May 8, 2026, 20:46 UTC · Let's Encrypt Outage Affecting Certificate Issuance and Managed Databases Operations

  1 hour 8 min · rated "Minor"

  "The upstream outage with Let's Encrypt has been resolved. Customers should now be able to issue Let's Encrypt certificates for Spaces, Load Balancers, and App Platform Custom Domains."

• May 8, 2026, 18:01 UTC · Multiple Services in NYC2

  1 hour 58 min · rated "Minor"

  "Our engineering team has resolved the issue with multiple services in NYC2 region, and all services should now be operating normally. If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team."

April 2026

• Apr 28, 2026, 13:45 UTC · Elevated 5xx "context canceled" errors impacting serverless inference

  5 hours 48 min · rated "Minor"

  "All services are operating normally. We will continue to monitor the system to ensure ongoing reliability. Thank you for your patience while we worked to resolve this issue."

• Apr 27, 2026, 10:38 UTC · Serverless Inference - Intermittent Rate Limiting Affecting Some Customers Using Anthropic Models

  59 minutes · rated "Major"

  "The issue is resolved, and service is operating normally."