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Outage in DigitalOcean

Cloud Control Panel and API

Resolved Major
August 24, 2026 - Started 20 days ago - Lasted 1 day
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Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

DigitalOcean's public API and Cloud Control Panel experienced a major outage lasting approximately 26 hours, causing elevated 5xx errors across all API requests, inaccessibility of cloud.digitalocean.com, and intermittent issues for Serverless Inference users. The incident recurred after an initial mitigation attempt, though running Droplets (data plane) remained unaffected throughout. Engineering implemented mitigation measures that stabilized services, confirmed stability after 12+ hours of monitoring, and resolved the incident, with a postmortem to follow.

Our Engineering team is investigating an issue impacting the DigitalOcean public API and Cloud Control Panel. At this time, users will see elevated 5xx errors for all API requests, including things like creates for various products. Users may also be unable to access cloud.digitalocean.com. We are actively investigating the root cause and will provide updates as soon as more information becomes available. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

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RESOLVED 19 days ago - at 08/25/2026 07:04PM

Our Engineering team has confirmed all services remain stable and we will now resolve this incident. Further details on root cause and mitigation will be provided in a postmortem via this status page for users interested in learning more.

Thank you for your patience throughout this incident. If you continue to experience any issues, please reach out to Support from within your account

MONITORING 19 days ago - at 08/25/2026 04:30PM

Our Engineering team has continued to monitor the health of all services and has observed no recurrence of impact over the past 12+ hours. We will continue to monitor services for a short period to confirm stability before we mark this incident resolved. We understand the impact this incident had for DigitalOcean users and we will publish a postmortem on the status page to provide further details on root cause and mitigation.

MONITORING 20 days ago - at 08/25/2026 12:54AM

Our Engineering team has implemented mitigation measures to address the issue impacting the DigitalOcean public API and Cloud Control Panel. We are seeing improvements, and users should now be able to access the Cloud Control Panel and use the public API normally.

We are continuing to monitor the service to ensure it remains stable and will provide further updates as more information becomes available. We appreciate your patience and understanding.

INVESTIGATING 20 days ago - at 08/24/2026 10:27PM

Our Engineering team is investigating a recurrence of the issue impacting the DigitalOcean public API and Cloud Control Panel. This issue does not impact our data plane (i.e. running droplets).

Users may experience difficulties accessing the Cloud Control Panel, along with elevated latency and intermittent errors when accessing the public API or Cloud Control Plane.

We are actively investigating the issue and working to restore normal service. We will continue to provide updates as more information becomes available. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

MONITORING 20 days ago - at 08/24/2026 07:14PM

Our Engineering team has implemented mitigation measures to address the issue affecting the DigitalOcean public API and Cloud Control Panel. We are seeing requests succeed, and users should now be able to access the Cloud Control Panel and issue/receive API requests normally.

We are currently monitoring the situation to ensure that the service has returned to normal operation and remains stable. We appreciate your patience and will provide an update once the issue is fully confirmed as resolved.

INVESTIGATING 20 days ago - at 08/24/2026 06:33PM

We are continuing to investigate the issue impacting the DigitalOcean public API and Cloud Control Panel. At this time, we are seeing some improvement in latency/error rates and some users may now be able to access the Cloud Control Panel.

Serverless Inference users may currently experience 403 and 503 errors when making API requests or accessing affected services.

We will continue to provide updates as more information becomes available. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

INVESTIGATING 20 days ago - at 08/24/2026 05:14PM

Our Engineering team is investigating an issue impacting the DigitalOcean public API and Cloud Control Panel. At this time, users will see elevated 5xx errors for all API requests, including things like creates for various products. Users may also be unable to access cloud.digitalocean.com.

We are actively investigating the root cause and will provide updates as soon as more information becomes available.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

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