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DigitalOcean outage history and incident tracker. 109 incidents analyzed.

Reliability Score21.3
PoorUptime: 94.164%

Total Incidents

109

Uptime

94.164%

Avg Resolution

4h 23m

Top Cause

network

DigitalOcean Outage Timeline

Outages by Year

Incident Severity

Recent DigitalOcean Incidents

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Managed Databases Creation

DigitalOcean·Aug 23, 2026·9h 22m

Our Engineering team has resolved the issue preventing cluster creation on Managed Databases in the NYC3 and NYC1 regions. Customers can now create new Managed Databases Clusters normally. Our Engineering team has monitored the environment to ensure stability. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this disruption may have caused to your operations. If you continue to experience issues, please open a ticket with our Support team: https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/

networkdatabaseapi
low

Container Registry and Spaces Accessibility

DigitalOcean·Aug 21, 2026·1h 53m

Our Engineering team has confirmed that the issue impacting Container Registry and Spaces accessibility has been resolved. Spaces accessibility via the Cloud Control Panel is now restored, and pushing and pulling container images is succeeding as expected. Customers who previously encountered these issues should now be able to access Spaces and deploy their container images without further issues. If you continue to experience any problems, please open a ticket with our support team. Thank yo

authenticationdeployment
low

Degraded Performance in MKC1

DigitalOcean·Aug 19, 2026·8h 25m

Our Engineering team has confirmed the regional control plane is healthy and CPU Droplets, Managed databases, Load balancers, Block storage, Kubernetes (DOKS) and Spaces are operating normally. GPU Droplets continue to be impacted and our teams are working to restore all nodes. We will communicate with GPU Droplet customers separately via Slack and email with more information and regular updates. Thank you for your patience throughout this incident. If you continue to experience any issues, pl

networkcomputeapistoragedatabase
critical

Volume Attach/Detach events in FRA1

DigitalOcean·Aug 13, 20260

Between Aug 13, 09:50 UTC and 14:30 UTC, customers in the FRA1 region experienced an issue affecting Block Storage Volumes attachment and detachment operations on Droplets and Managed Kubernetes clusters. During this window, customers may have encountered delays or been unable to attach and detach Block Storage Volumes from their resources. Block Storage Volumes attachment and detachment operations now appear to be functioning normally, and customers should no longer experience issues with th

computestorage
low

Account Registration, Droplets, and Related Services

DigitalOcean·Aug 8, 2026·6h 3m

Our Engineering team confirms the full resolution of the issue affecting all impacted services, including new account registration, Droplet Creation, Reserved IPs, Automated Backups and Snapshots, Droplet Autoscale, DOKS clusters, GenAI services, the Droplet Console, and Database cluster creation. We apologize for the inconvenience. If you continue to experience any issues, please open a support ticket from within your account.

capacityauthenticationdatabasenetworkdns
low

Functions on App Platform

DigitalOcean·Aug 6, 2026·2h 4m

Our Engineering team has confirmed that the issue affecting Functions on App Platform has been fully resolved. Functions builds, deploys, and requests to Functions endpoints are all working as expected. The fix implemented earlier was successful, and we are no longer seeing any problems affecting Functions. However, if you continue to experience any issues, please don't hesitate to raise a support ticket for further investigation.

networkcomputeapideploymentsecuritycertificate
low

Multiple Services Availability

DigitalOcean·Aug 6, 20260

Between Aug 6, 06:42 UTC and 09:08 UTC, customers experienced failures with write operations across multiple DigitalOcean services, including Managed Databases, DOKS, Cloud Firewalls, DNS, Spaces, Block Storage Volumes, and event processing. Customers attempting to update Cloud Firewall rules, modify DNS records, manage object storage operations, provision or scale DOKS clusters and node pools, and make other infrastructure configuration changes experienced failures. These operations returned e

dnsstoragedatabaseconfiguration
low

Spaces Cold Storage Billing

DigitalOcean·Aug 4, 2026·5h 29m

As of 21:06 UTC, our Engineering team has resolved the issue affecting Spaces Cold Storage billing. An error in our billing processing system caused incorrect values to be reflected in daily usage and current invoices for customers with cold storage buckets. Our team identified and corrected an issue with the billing data sync, ensuring accurate usage reporting. If you continue to experience any issues, please open a ticket with our Support team. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have

networkstorage
low

Cloud Control Panel Access

DigitalOcean·Aug 3, 2026·4h 2m

Between 09:36 and 13:30 UTC on August 3, some customers experienced intermittent errors while accessing the DigitalOcean Cloud Control Panel. We renewed the affected internal certificates and restored access. The issue is resolved, and the Cloud Control Panel is operating normally. We apologize for the disruption.

networkauthenticationsecuritycertificate
low

Cloud Control Panel Access

DigitalOcean·Aug 3, 20260

Between 09:36 and 13:30 UTC on August 3, 2026, some customers experienced intermittent errors accessing the DigitalOcean Cloud Control Panel and may have seen an "mTLS verification failed" message. The issue was caused by an internal certificate renewal failure. We renewed the affected certificates and restored normal access. We apologize for the disruption.

authenticationsecuritycertificate
low

Incident Severity Distribution

critical
1 (1%)
high
8 (7%)
low
100 (92%)

Frequently Asked Questions

Is DigitalOcean down right now?
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How often does DigitalOcean have outages?
IncidentHub-Bay has tracked 109 incidents for DigitalOcean across its monitoring period. This includes outages, service degradations, and performance issues of varying severity levels.
What is DigitalOcean's uptime percentage?
Based on tracked incidents and their durations, DigitalOcean's calculated uptime is 94.164%. The reliability score is 21.3/100 (Poor), which factors in incident severity, frequency, resolution time, and recent trends.
What are the most common causes of DigitalOcean outages?
The most frequently tagged causes of DigitalOcean incidents are: network, api, authentication. These are automatically categorized based on incident reports and status page updates.
How long do DigitalOcean outages typically last?
The average resolution time for DigitalOcean incidents is approximately 4 hours and 23 minutes. This includes time from initial detection to full resolution.
How does DigitalOcean's reliability compare to other cloud providers?
DigitalOcean has a reliability score of 21.3/100 (Poor). Visit our Reliability Rankings page to see how DigitalOcean compares to other AI and cloud providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, and Google AI.

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