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Outage in DigitalOcean

Kubernetes Cluster Management Operations

Resolved Major
October 27, 2026 - Started about 21 hours ago - Lasted about 4 hours
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Summary AI Generated

For approximately 3.7 hours, DigitalOcean's Managed Kubernetes cluster management operations were disrupted globally, preventing customers from creating, deleting, scaling, or upgrading clusters. Existing workloads running on affected clusters remained operational throughout the incident. Engineers implemented a fix and confirmed full resolution, with all cluster management operations returning to normal.

Our Engineering team is currently investigating an issue affecting Managed Kubernetes cluster operations. During this time, Customers may experience delays or failures when attempting to create, delete, scale, or upgrade clusters, as well as with other management tasks. Existing workloads running on Managed Kubernetes are not affected and will continue to operate normally. Our Engineering team is actively investigating and treating this with the highest priority. We will provide another update as soon as more information becomes available.
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DigitalOcean Global

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RESOLVED about 17 hours ago - at 10/28/2026 01:55AM

We have resolved the issue affecting Managed Kubernetes cluster operations across all regions. Cluster creation, deletion, scaling, and upgrade operations have returned to normal.

We have monitored the environment and confirmed that services are operating normally.

If you continue to experience any issues, please contact our Support team by opening a ticket here: https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/

MONITORING about 17 hours ago - at 10/28/2026 01:34AM

Our Engineering team has implemented a fix for the issue affecting Managed Kubernetes cluster operations across all regions. Customers should now be able to create, delete, scale, and upgrade their clusters as expected.

We are monitoring the situation to ensure all cluster management operations are functioning normally and the service remains stable.

We will post another update once we confirm the issue is fully resolved.

INVESTIGATING about 19 hours ago - at 10/28/2026 12:01AM

Our Engineering team continues to investigate an issue affecting Managed Kubernetes cluster operations.

Customers may still experience delays or failures when creating, deleting, scaling, or upgrading clusters, across all regions.

Existing workloads running on Managed Kubernetes are not affected and will continue to operate normally.

We have no new information to share at this time. Our Engineering team is actively working on this issue and treating it with the highest priority. We will provide another update within the next hour, or sooner if more information becomes available.

INVESTIGATING about 21 hours ago - at 10/27/2026 10:14PM

Our Engineering team is currently investigating an issue affecting Managed Kubernetes cluster operations.

During this time, Customers may experience delays or failures when attempting to create, delete, scale, or upgrade clusters, as well as with other management tasks.

Existing workloads running on Managed Kubernetes are not affected and will continue to operate normally.

Our Engineering team is actively investigating and treating this with the highest priority. We will provide another update as soon as more information becomes available.

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