DigitalOceanOutage history and postmortems
Downtime, added up
DigitalOcean: 38m weighted downtime in range, category median 43m.
30 incidents, 9d 9h of incident time (2d 9h major or critical, 6d 23h partial) between Jun 27, 2026 and Sep 24, 2026.
DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational technology company and cloud service provider. The company is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, US, with 15 globally distributed data centers.
Stated causes
103 incidents with no cause stated.
DigitalOcean incidents
114 on fileSupport Portal Service DisruptionSep 16, 2026, 09:4811h 21mMinorDependency
Power Degradation impacting GPU Performance in ATL1Sep 9, 2026, 10:471h 38mMinorNot disclosed
Cloud Control Panel and APIAug 24, 2026, 17:1425h 50mCriticalNot disclosed
Managed Databases CreationAug 23, 2026, 05:119h 22mMinorNot disclosed
Container Registry and Spaces AccessibilityAug 21, 2026, 12:591h 53mMinorNot disclosed
Major Service Interruption in MKC1Aug 19, 2026, 11:108h 25mCriticalNot disclosed
Volume Attach/Detach events in FRA1Aug 13, 2026, 14:590mInformationalNot disclosed
Account Registration, Droplets, and Related ServicesAug 8, 2026, 18:576h 3mMinorDatabase
Functions on App PlatformAug 6, 2026, 19:012h 4mMinorNot disclosed
Multiple Services AvailabilityAug 6, 2026, 16:330mInformationalNot disclosed
Spaces Cold Storage BillingAug 4, 2026, 16:135h 29mMinorNot disclosed
Cloud Control Panel AccessAug 3, 2026, 13:584h 2mMinorNot disclosed
Response Degradation Impacting Kimi-K3Jul 29, 2026, 17:5612h 19mMinorNot disclosed
Agent Platform Requests Returning HTTP 500 ErrorsJul 27, 2026, 18:3120h 53mMajorNot disclosed
Network Connectivity from India to NYCJul 24, 2026, 10:362h 6mMinorNetwork
Llama-4-Maverick Model AvailabilityJul 23, 2026, 11:161h 20mMinorNot disclosed
Gradient AI Serverless Inference Requests Timing Out for qwen3.5-397b-a17bJul 22, 2026, 16:502h 52mMinorNot disclosed
Block Storage Volume NYC1, NYC3, SGP1, SYD1 and BLR1Jul 19, 2026, 09:515h 41mMinorStorage
Networking in BLR1Jul 19, 2026, 06:572h 54mMinorNot disclosed
Reserved IP routing in TOR1Jul 16, 2026, 13:393h 45mMinorNetwork
Serverless Inference - Gemma4 Latency Issues Causing Timeouts & Slow ResponsesJul 13, 2026, 19:042d 2hMinorConfig change
Kubernetes Deployments in NYC1Jul 9, 2026, 20:3128h 56mMinorNot disclosed
Limited access to Deepseek V4 Pro modelJul 4, 2026, 22:132h 40mMajorNot disclosed
Droplet Actions in NYC3Jul 4, 2026, 14:4227mInformationalNot disclosed
Managed Database ClustersJul 2, 2026, 22:0410h 16mMinorNot disclosed
DNS Lookup Failures for Managed DatabaseJul 1, 2026, 11:354h 53mMinorNot disclosed
Droplet ResizeJul 1, 2026, 11:132h 15mInformationalNot disclosed
Agent Timeouts While Retrieving Data from Knowledge BasesJul 1, 2026, 06:2521h 13mInformationalNot disclosed
Droplet Backup ServiceJun 27, 2026, 18:240mInformationalNot disclosed
Anthropic Inference Model AvailabilityJun 27, 2026, 04:4332mInformationalNot disclosed
Questions
Is DigitalOcean down right now?
Check DigitalOcean's own status page at https://status.digitalocean.com for the live state. This page shows DigitalOcean's incident history from that page; the most recent incident started 2026-09-16: "Support Portal Service Disruption".
How often does DigitalOcean have outages?
DigitalOcean posted 30 incidents in the last 90 days and 114 in the last year, 4 of them major or critical in the last 90 days. The median incident lasted 3h 54m.
When was DigitalOcean's last major outage?
2026-08-24: "Cloud Control Panel and API", lasting 25h 50m.
What usually causes DigitalOcean incidents?
Where DigitalOcean explained the cause, the most common was network (3 incidents). Most status updates do not name a cause.
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