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Outage in DigitalOcean

Support Portal Service Disruption

Resolved Minor
September 16, 2026 - Started 20 days ago - Lasted about 11 hours
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Summary AI Generated

DigitalOcean's Support Portal experienced a disruption from approximately 08:06 to 13:41 UTC on September 16, 2026, caused by a third-party upstream provider issue. During this time, customers were unable to access the portal, create new support tickets, or review existing requests. The upstream provider deployed a fix that fully resolved the issue, with DigitalOcean confirming normal operation of all support functions shortly after.

Our Support Portal is currently experiencing issues due to a third-party service disruption impacting our systems. During this time, customers may be unable to access the Support Portal or create new support tickets for their concerns. Existing support requests may also experience delayed responses from our Support team. As a workaround if you're unable to access the Support Portal or need to create a new support ticket, please submit your request via Support Contact form: https://www.digitalocean.com/company/contact/support. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience while we work to resolve the issue. We'll provide another update as soon as we have more information.
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DigitalOcean Support Center

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RESOLVED 20 days ago - at 09/16/2026 09:09PM

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.

Our Engineering team has confirmed the full resolution of the issue affecting the Support Portal following a fix from our upstream provider. We have verified that the Support Portal, ticket creation, and ticket review are now operating normally.

If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

MONITORING 20 days ago - at 09/16/2026 02:07PM

The Support Portal and ticket creation are now accessible. Our upstream provider has applied a fix, and we've verified ticket creation and review are working as expected. We'll continue monitoring for the next 2 hours to confirm full stability and will post a final update once the incident is closed. If you're still unable to access the portal, please use our Support Contact form as a backup: https://www.digitalocean.com/company/contact/support
We apologize for the disruption and appreciate your patience.

INVESTIGATING 20 days ago - at 09/16/2026 09:48AM

Our Support Portal is currently experiencing issues due to a third-party service disruption impacting our systems. During this time, customers may be unable to access the Support Portal or create new support tickets for their concerns. Existing support requests may also experience delayed responses from our Support team.

As a workaround if you're unable to access the Support Portal or need to create a new support ticket, please submit your request via Support Contact form: https://www.digitalocean.com/company/contact/support.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience while we work to resolve the issue. We'll provide another update as soon as we have more information.

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