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DigitalOcean outage history and postmortems

Cloud and hosting · Broomfield, US · 28 incidents in 90 days · 99.97% implied uptime · last 8d ago

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Incidents

114 on file
StartedIncidentDuration
Sep 1609:48 UTCSupport Portal Service Disruption11h 21m
Sep 910:47 UTCPower Degradation impacting GPU Performance in ATL11h 38m
Aug 2417:14 UTCCloud Control Panel and API25h 50m
Aug 2305:11 UTCManaged Databases Creation9h 22m
Aug 2112:59 UTCContainer Registry and Spaces Accessibility1h 53m
Aug 1911:10 UTCMajor Service Interruption in MKC18h 25m
Aug 1314:59 UTCVolume Attach/Detach events in FRA10m
Aug 818:57 UTCAccount Registration, Droplets, and Related Services6h 3m
Aug 619:01 UTCFunctions on App Platform2h 4m
Aug 616:33 UTCMultiple Services Availability0m
Aug 416:13 UTCSpaces Cold Storage Billing5h 29m
Aug 313:58 UTCCloud Control Panel Access4h 2m
Jul 2917:56 UTCResponse Degradation Impacting Kimi-K312h 19m
Jul 2718:31 UTCAgent Platform Requests Returning HTTP 500 Errors20h 53m
Jul 2410:36 UTCNetwork Connectivity from India to NYC2h 6m
Jul 2311:16 UTCLlama-4-Maverick Model Availability1h 20m
Jul 2216:50 UTCGradient AI Serverless Inference Requests Timing Out for qwen3.5-397b-a17b2h 52m
Jul 1909:51 UTCBlock Storage Volume NYC1, NYC3, SGP1, SYD1 and BLR15h 41m
Jul 1906:57 UTCNetworking in BLR12h 54m
Jul 1613:39 UTCReserved IP routing in TOR13h 45m
Jul 1319:04 UTCServerless Inference - Gemma4 Latency Issues Causing Timeouts & Slow Responses2d 2h
Jul 920:31 UTCKubernetes Deployments in NYC128h 56m
Jul 422:13 UTCLimited access to Deepseek V4 Pro model2h 40m
Jul 414:42 UTCDroplet Actions in NYC327m
Jul 222:04 UTCManaged Database Clusters10h 16m
Jul 111:35 UTCDNS Lookup Failures for Managed Database4h 53m
Jul 111:13 UTCDroplet Resize2h 15m
Jul 106:25 UTCAgent Timeouts While Retrieving Data from Knowledge Bases21h 13m
Jun 2718:24 UTCDroplet Backup Service0m
Jun 2704:43 UTCAnthropic Inference Model Availability32m
Jun 1914:00 UTCMonitoring Graphs in the Cloud Control Panel2h 37m
Jun 1622:00 UTCIntermittent 500 Errors on Serverless/GenAI Inference API2h 29m
Jun 1114:24 UTCDeepSeek V4 Pro is returning HTTP 429 "Rate limit exceeded"3h 18m
Jun 410:12 UTCDNS API Service1h 35m
May 2900:14 UTCApp Platform Deployments7h 44m
May 2012:08 UTCCloud Firewall55m
May 2005:35 UTCCloud Firewall2h 12m
May 2001:05 UTCBlock Storage Volume Performance4h 9m
May 1501:21 UTCAnthropic reported outage that's impacting access to their Serverless Inference models39m
May 1413:57 UTCDNS service, Certificates and Managed MongoDB6h 49m
About DigitalOcean

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.

The last year, day by day

No incident Minor Major CriticalDeeper colour: longer outage

Downtime, added up

Cloud and hosting median
43m

DigitalOcean: 38m weighted downtime in range, category median 43m.

28 incidents, 4 major or critical, 9d 9h of incident time (2d 9h major or critical, 6d 23h partial), longest 2d 2h, implied uptime 99.97%, between Jun 28, 2026 and Sep 25, 2026.

Stated causes

103 incidents with no cause stated.

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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 29 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 4h 2m.

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.

Sources: vendors' own status pages, published postmortems and SEC 8-K Item 1.05 filings, read daily. Times as reported. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners.

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