Container Registry Garbage Collection

lowDigitalOceanOct 28, 2025 11:30Duration: 8h 29m
network
Network / Routing

Summary

Our Engineering team has resolved the issue affecting Garbage Collection in container registries, and all services are operating normally. If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Impact

minor

Timeline

Oct 28, 2025 11:30

[investigating] Our Engineering team is investigating an issue with the Garbage Collection in the container registries. At this time, users may experience errors with the Garbage Collection failing or being stuck. We apologize for the inconvenience and will share an update once we have more information.

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+3h 27m
Oct 28, 2025 14:57

[identified] Our Engineering team has identified the root cause of the issue affecting Garbage Collection in the container registries. A fix is being implemented to resolve failures and stuck operations. We will provide an update once the mitigation has been deployed. We apologize for the inconvenience and will share an update once we have more information.

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+4h 9m
Oct 28, 2025 19:06

[monitoring] Our Engineering team has implemented a fix for the Garbage Collection issue affecting container registries and Customers should no longer experience Garbage Collection jobs failing or getting stuck. We are currently monitoring the situation and will post an update as soon as the issue is fully resolved. If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team. We apologize for any inconvenience.

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+53m
Oct 28, 2025 19:58

[resolved] Our Engineering team has resolved the issue affecting Garbage Collection in container registries, and all services are operating normally. If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team. We apologize for any inconvenience.

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Lessons Learned

DigitalOcean has experienced 46 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to network have occurred 48 times across all providers in the past year. This is one of the most common failure categories in cloud infrastructure.

💡This incident is categorized as: Network / Routing. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.