Sep 8, 15:22 UTC
Resolved - Our Engineering team investigated reports of Droplets becoming unresponsive. This issue was found to be caused by guest-level kernel hangs, and affected Droplets required a power cycle to restore functionality.

Upon further investigation, this was identified to be an upstream kernel issue with Ubuntu 20.04 running kernel version 5.4.0-122-generic. This kernel version has exhibited stability problems that can lead to Droplets becoming unresponsive intermittently. Customers running Ubuntu 20.04 with kernel 5.4.0-122-generic are advised to upgrade to a newer kernel version using the commands below:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade linux-virtual

This problem is fixed with the newer kernel 5.4.0-123.139. The recommended option is to migrate to a more recent and fully supported OS version, such as Ubuntu 24.04, to ensure continued system stability and support. The affected customers can take the recommended steps above to avoid further impact.

We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Sep 8, 08:41 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is actively investigating an issue causing some Droplets to become unresponsive due to guest-level errors. Affected users may find that their Droplets intermittently hang, requiring a power cycle to restore access.

We've identified that this behavior is occurring on a subset of Droplets running Ubuntu 20.04. The standard support for Ubuntu 20.04 has ended, which may contribute to the observed behavior in certain configurations. We recommend affected customers consider updating their Droplets to a currently supported operating system, such as Ubuntu 24.04, to ensure continued stability and support.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we continue to investigate and work toward a resolution. We will share further updates as more information becomes available.

Sep 16, 17:39 UTC
Resolved - Our Engineering team has confirmed that our upstream providers have been able to mitigate the network connectivity issues in the BLR1 and SGP1 regions.

At this time users should not experience intermittent degraded performance and timeout errors with Droplet-based services to and from these regions.

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

Sep 15, 16:59 UTC
Update - Our Engineering team has observed significant improvements with the network latency and packet loss during peak hours today. This is a result of our upstream providers making some routing adjustments. We are carefully monitoring the network performance for the next 24 hours.

We will communicate any further relevant information as we have it. We apologize for the inconvenience in the meantime.

Sep 8, 22:29 UTC
Update - Significant submarine cable outages continue to impact multiple network carriers on the Indian subcontinent, with increased latency and packet loss to our BLR1 region occurring sporadically throughout the day.

On a positive note, our upstream providers have worked diligently over the past couple of days to minimize the impact of the loss of submarine capacity. As a result, we are now mainly seeing service degradation during the busier evening peak hours only.

For the moment, we have no updates to provide regarding when the situation might improve. Repair times for submarine cables are typically on the order of weeks or months. However, further short-term improvements may still be possible as upstream carriers work to re-balance traffic where feasible.

Separately, we continue to look into potential avenues for additional mitigations and will keep our customers aprised as we make progress in this area.

We apologize for the ongoing inconvenience created by this extraordinary situation and thank our customers for their patience.

Sep 6, 23:02 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team confirms that multiple subsea cable cuts are impacting connectivity in the APAC region, which also affects traffic to Europe and the U.S. East Coast.

Traffic is being rerouted through alternate paths to maintain service continuity. As a result, users may experience higher latency and intermittent connectivity issues.

Our engineering team continues to monitor the situation closely and is working with upstream providers as repair efforts progress. We will share further updates as they become available.

We apologize for the disruption and appreciate your patience.

Sep 6, 18:49 UTC
Update - We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

Sep 6, 18:44 UTC
Update - Our Engineering team has implemented changes to optimize traffic routing in the BLR and SGP regions, addressing networking issues stemming from our upstream providers, which are affected by major submarine cable outages in the APAC region. Despite these adjustments, users may still encounter intermittent packet loss or connectivity issues when accessing resources in the affected areas. We are working with our upstream vendors to gain further insights and achieve a definitive resolution.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Sep 6, 16:48 UTC
Identified - Our Engineering team has identified the cause of the issue impacting networking connectivity in BLR1 region to be with our upstream provider.

Our team is actively working on remediation steps. We will post an update as soon as we have more information.

Sep 6, 16:13 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is currently investigating an issue impacting networking in BLR1 region. Users may experience network connectivity loss to Droplets and Droplet-based services, like Managed Kubernetes and Database Clusters.

We apologize for the inconvenience and will share an update once we have more information.

Sep 5, 19:42 UTC
Resolved - From 18:53 to 19:15 UTC, our Engineering team identified an issue with the public Droplet API, resulting in difficulties in creating, accessing and listing Droplets via the Cloud Control Panel or API. Autoscaler and LBaaS APIs were also affected. Our team has fully resolved the issues, and as of 19:15 UTC, all services are operating normally.
We apologize for the inconvenience. If you are still experiencing any problems or have additional questions, then please open a support ticket within your account

Sep 3, 11:30 UTC
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Sep 3, 07:30 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

Sep 2, 22:10 UTC
Scheduled - Start: 2025-09-03 07:30 UTC
End: 2025-09-03 11:30 UTC

During the above window, our Engineering team will be performing maintenance on the Managed Databases API to enhance security, improve access control and enable better auditing and compliance. Please note that existing Databases and workloads will continue to run normally and will not be impacted.

Expected Impact:

We don’t anticipate any service disruptions during this window. Your existing databases and workloads will continue to run normally and will not be impacted.

In the event of an unexpected issue occurs, only control plane actions like provisioning new clusters, modifying configurations, and fetching database details will be impacted. The data-plane for connecting and running queries on your databases will be unaffected.

If an unexpected issue arises, we will endeavor to keep any impact to a minimum and may revert if required.

If you have any questions related to this event, please send us a ticket from your cloud support page. https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/createticket

Aug 29, 15:45 UTC
Resolved - From 14:24 to 14:41 UTC, our Engineering team identified issues affecting Block Storage Volumes in the NYC1 region. During this time, users may have experienced difficulties processing requests on Volumes. It was observed that this might have impacted Kubernetes clusters in the NYC1 region as well. Our team has fully resolved the issues, and as of 14:42 UTC, all services are operating normally.

We apologize for the inconvenience. If you are still experiencing any problems or have additional questions, then please open a support ticket within your account

Aug 26, 20:01 UTC
Resolved - Our Engineering team has confirmed full resolution of the issue impacting Droplet creation in all regions. Users can now create Droplets without any issues.

We appreciate your patience while we worked to fix this issue. If you continue to experience any problems, please open a ticket from your account for further investigation.

Aug 26, 19:33 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has identified the reason behind the failed Droplet creates and implemented a fix to resolve the issue. Users should now be able to create Droplets.

We are actively monitoring the situation and will post an update as soon as the issue is fully resolved.

Aug 26, 18:30 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is currently investigating an issue with Droplet creation in multiple regions. This is only affecting new accounts at this time. Existing users are not impacted.

Users with new accounts may experience an elevated failure rate when attempting to create Droplets during this time.

We apologize for the inconvenience and will share an update once we have more information.

Aug 22, 04:54 UTC
Completed - Our Engineering team has confirmed that the issue caused by the unexpected power event has been fully resolved. Droplet connectivity in SFO2 should now be completely restored, and events like powering on/off should work as expected.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused. If you continue to experience any issues, please open a support ticket from within your account.

Aug 22, 01:25 UTC
Update - Our Engineering team has mitigated the issue with the unexpected power event and will continue to monitor this closely. Droplet connectivity in SFO2 should be restored, and events, such as powering on/off, should complete successfully now.

We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused. We will post updates if any further unexpected issues arise, and once this maintenance is fully completed. Thank you for your patience.

Aug 22, 00:35 UTC
Update - Our Engineering team is still working on the issue with some nodes in SFO2 going offline. Some users may still experience connectivity and event processing issues in SFO2.

We apologize for the inconvenience. We will post an update once we've confirmed that this issue is resolved.

Aug 21, 23:29 UTC
Update - During this maintenance, an unexpected power issue has occurred, which has caused multiple nodes to go down. Some customers with Droplets in SFO2 may notice that their Droplets are experiencing connectivity and event processing issues.

Our Engineering team is working to resolve this immediately, we will post an update here once we have more information.

Aug 21, 21:00 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

Aug 21, 20:50 UTC
Scheduled - We are initiating an emergency power maintenance in one of our data center cages. This maintenance is critical and must be performed immediately to ensure infrastructure stability.

Expected Impact:

All devices run on redundant power. We do not expect any customer impact during this maintenance. If the redundant power feed experienced an issue during the course of the maintenance (which is unlikely), customers could see impact to existing resources housed in the affected cages, including Droplets, rDNS, and Object Storage. We will post updates if any unexpected outage occurs.

To help ensure a safe operation, we've temporarily reduced Droplet capacity in our SFO2 region. Customers who deploy Droplets in SFO2 may see some sizes unavailable or run into capacity errors for large deployments. This is temporary, so if you do encounter an error, we encourage you to try to deploy once more once the maintenance is complete.

Our engineering and operations teams are onsite and will be monitoring affected systems closely throughout the maintenance. Emergency notifications will be sent promptly if any critical impacts arise.

We appreciate your understanding as we work to resolve this situation as quickly and safely as possible.

If you have any questions related to this maintenance please send us a ticket from your cloud support page. https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/createticket

Aug 15, 15:42 UTC
Resolved - From 14:40 UTC to 14:52 UTC, users may have experienced errors when trying to use the API or while accessing our Cloud Control Panel at https://cloud.digitalocean.com.

Our Engineering team has implemented a fix and confirmed full resolution of the issue. Users should be able to access the API and Cloud Control Panel without issue now.

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

Aug 13, 09:30 UTC
Resolved - As of 18:45 UTC, our Engineering team has resolved the issues with OpenAI rate limits that were affecting certain DigitalOcean services. The problem, which began at approximately 09:30 UTC, caused errors (429s) for Agents using OpenAI models for serverless inference.

Systems Affected:

Serverless inference
Evaluations

Technical Details: The issue was caused by exceeding OpenAI rate limits, which resulted in 429 errors for OpenAI models.

Duration: The incident lasted for approximately 9 hours, from 09:30 UTC to 18:45 UTC. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and appreciate your patience as we worked to resolve the issue. If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our Support team.

Aug 7, 23:45 UTC
Resolved - Our Engineering team identified and resolved an issue with the doctl v1.136.0 that was affecting automations and integrations, including App Platform and GitHub Action.

Users with the affected version of doctl may see 404 errors blocking their pipeline. The issue was caused by missing binaries in the release. The broken release has been deleted. Automations depending on doctl should now function as expected.

We apologize for the inconvenience. The new release shall be published soon.

Jul 30, 02:04 UTC
Resolved - Our Engineering team has implemented a fix for the issue that was preventing users from submitting or viewing tickets through our Support Ticket Portal. At this time, all users should be able to access the portal and manage tickets normally via https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/.

Additionally, any previously submitted tickets that were affected by this issue have now been successfully routed to our Support Team, who will be addressing them as quickly as possible.

We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience while we worked to resolve this issue.

Jul 30, 01:42 UTC
Identified - Our Engineering team has identified the root cause of the issue affecting the ability to submit or view tickets through our Support Ticket Portal. They are actively working on implementing a fix.

We will share another update as soon as more information becomes available. Thank you for your continued patience and understanding as we work to resolve this issue.

Jul 30, 01:26 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is investigating an issue with our DigitalOcean Support Ticket Portal. At this time, users may not be able to submit new tickets or view currently opened tickets at https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/.

We apologize for the inconvenience and will share an update once we have more information.

Jul 23, 12:38 UTC
Resolved - As of 23:43 UTC, July 22, we have confirmed that the issue has been fully resolved. All affected functionality is operating normally, and users should be able to add and update payment methods without any errors.

Thank you for your patience while we worked to address this issue. If you continue to experience issues, then please open a ticket with our Support team for further review.

Jul 23, 01:47 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has implemented a fix for the issue that was preventing users from adding payment cards via the DigitalOcean Cloud Panel. Functionality has been restored, and users should no longer encounter errors when attempting to add or update payment methods.

We are actively monitoring the situation to ensure stability and will provide a final update once we confirm the issue is fully resolved.

Jul 23, 00:09 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is currently investigating an issue where users are unable to add payment cards via the DigitalOcean Cloud Panel. We apologize for the inconvenience and will share an update as soon as we have more information.

Jul 22, 18:55 UTC
Resolved - Our Engineering team, in collaboration with Let's Encrypt, has successfully resolved the issue affecting SSL certificate provisioning for Spaces and Load Balancers. Certificate creation is now fully restored and functioning as expected.

Existing certificates and HTTPS traffic were not impacted during this time. If you continue to experience any issues with certificate provisioning, please open a support ticket for assistance.

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and appreciate your patience.

Jul 22, 14:55 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team, in collaboration with Let's Encrypt, has implemented a fix to address the issue affecting SSL certificate provisioning for Spaces and Load Balancers. Initial reports indicate that certificate creation is now functioning as expected.

However, we are continuing to monitor the situation closely to ensure full stability. Existing certificates and HTTPS traffic remain unaffected.

We will provide an update once the issue is fully resolved.

Jul 22, 09:32 UTC
Update - Our Engineering team continues to investigate an issue affecting the creation of Let's Encrypt SSL certificates through the DigitalOcean Cloud Panel for Spaces and Load Balancers. During this time, users may experience failures or delays when provisioning new certificates.

Our team is actively working to resolve the issue and we will provide further updates as soon as we have more information. Thank you for your continued patience.

Jul 21, 20:02 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team has identified an issue affecting the creation of Let's Encrypt SSL certificates through the DigitalOcean Cloud Panel for Spaces and Load Balancers. During this time, users may experience failures or delays when provisioning new certificates.

Our team is actively working with Let's Encrypt to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. Existing certificates and traffic over HTTPS are not impacted.

We will continue to provide updates as we learn more.

Jul 23, 20:45 UTC
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Jul 23, 13:00 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

Jul 20, 14:15 UTC
Scheduled - Start: 2025-07-23 13:00 UTC
End: 2025-07-23 21:00 UTC

During the above window, our Engineering team will be performing maintenance on core control plane infrastructure. Please note that the existing infrastructure will continue running without issue. This maintenance may impact create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations in all regions.

Expected Impact:

During the maintenance window, users may experience brief periods of increased latency with the following platform operations:

Cloud Control Panel and API operations
Event processing
Droplet creates, resizes, rebuilds, and power events
Managed Kubernetes reconciliation and scaling
Load Balancer operations
Container Registry operations
App Platform operations
Managed Database creation and scaling

We do not expect any impact to customer traffic due to this maintenance. If an unexpected issue for the control plane arises, we will endeavor to keep any impact to a minimum and may revert if required.

If you have any questions related to this maintenance please send us a ticket from your cloud support page. https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/createticket

Jul 18, 13:20 UTC
Resolved - Our Engineering team has successfully resolved the issue that was affecting Reserved IPs and Load Balancers. Between 10:45 UTC and 12:10 UTC today, users may have encountered errors while assigning, reserving, or releasing Reserved IPs, or provisioning Load Balancers. All services have now been fully restored and are functioning normally. If you continue to experience any issues, please open a ticket with our support team. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Jul 18, 12:36 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has implemented a fix to address the issue affecting Reserved IPs and Load Balancers and is actively monitoring the situation. We will provide an update once the issue is fully resolved.

Jul 18, 12:17 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is currently investigating an issue affecting Reserved IPs and Load Balancers. During this time, users may be unable to assign, reserve, or release Reserved IPs, or provision Load Balancers. This impact is limited to IPv4; IPv6 remains unaffected. We apologize for the inconvenience and will share an update as soon as we have more information

Jul 17, 18:10 UTC
Resolved - From 13:12 UTC to 17:18 UTC, users may have experienced errors with App deployment via App Platform. The deployments particularly failed for the Apps with Databases linked to them.

Our Engineering team has now confirmed the resolution of the issue, and App deployment should be working as expected.

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

Jul 17, 15:17 UTC
Resolved - Our Engineering team has implemented a fix for the issue that was preventing tickets submitted via the Support Contact Form from reaching our Support team. The form is now working as expected, and all new submissions are being properly routed to our Support team.

Additionally, previously submitted tickets that were impacted by this issue have been successfully routed to our Support Team. The team will address them as soon as possible.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused and appreciate your patience while we worked to resolve this issue.

Jul 17, 11:35 UTC
Identified - Our Engineering team has identified the root cause of the issue with submissions from our Support Contact Form and backlogged submissions are now flowing into our Support queues to be addressed.

Our Support team is now working to address the backlog of submissions as quickly as possible.

Jul 17, 09:46 UTC
Investigating - As of 9:23 UTC, our Engineering team is currently investigating an issue with our Support Contact Form, which users use when they are unable to log into their accounts to submit support tickets, located here: https://www.digitalocean.com/company/contact/support

At this time, users are still able to submit the form, but the submissions are not being received by our Support Team.

We have confirmed the submissions were received by our systems and we're working to get these submissions over to our Support Team, as well as remediate the issue.

If you are able to log into your account, please submit any Support tickets via https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/ rather than the contact form.

We will post another update as soon as we have further information. In the meantime, we appreciate your patience as we work through this.

Jul 10, 23:13 UTC
Resolved - Our Engineering team has fully resolved the issue with new Kubernetes cluster GPU creations. Users with new clusters should be able to create GPU nodes without issue.

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

Jul 10, 21:19 UTC
Identified - Our Engineering team has identified an issue impacting creations of GPU nodes on new Kubernetes clusters. New clusters on the latest version will not be able to launch a new GPU node. Existing workloads are not impacted.

Our team is working on deploying a fix for this issue, We will post an update once we have more information.

Jul 8, 17:01 UTC
Resolved - Our Engineering team has resolved the issue affecting all control plane operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete) for non-MongoDB Managed Database clusters. All services and App Platform deployments with Managed Databases should now be operating normally.

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

Jul 8, 16:01 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has deployed a fix to address the issue affecting all control plane operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete) for non-MongoDB Managed Database clusters. Users should now be able to perform standard database operations successfully. App Platform deployments with Managed Databases should also be succeeding now.

We are now monitoring the situation in order to ensure stability and will post an update once the issue is resolved completely.

Jul 8, 14:57 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is investigating an issue that is impacting all control plane operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete) for all non-Mongo Managed Database clusters. During this time, users may encounter long running queries when attempting those operations, including provisioning new clusters, listing clusters, etc.

In addition, App Platform deploys with Managed Databases are also affected, which may result in delayed or failed deployments for some applications.

We will provide updates as more information becomes available.

Jul 10, 00:00 UTC
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Jul 9, 22:00 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

Jul 6, 23:35 UTC
Update - We will be undergoing scheduled maintenance during this time.

Jul 6, 23:32 UTC
Scheduled - We are reaching out again to inform you that the Network maintenance in NYC1 region which was previously scheduled to be complete on 2025-06-18 22:00 UTC has been rescheduled to the following window:

Start: 2025-07-09 22:00 UTC
End: 2025-07-10 00:00 UTC

We apologize for any inconvenience this short notice causes and thank you for your understanding. You may find the initial maintenance notice along with a description of any expected impact related to this work included at the bottom of this message.

If you have questions or concerns about this maintenance, please reach out to us by opening up a ticket on your account.

---BEGIN INITIAL MAINTENANCE NOTICE—

Start: 2025-06-18 22:00 UTC
End: 2025-06-19 00:00 UTC

Hello,

During the above window, our Networking team will be making changes to the core networking infrastructure to improve performance and scalability in the NYC1 region.

Expected impact:

During the maintenance window, users may experience delays or failures with event processing for a brief duration on Droplets and Droplet-based services, including Droplets, Managed Kubernetes, Load Balancers, Container Registry, and App Platform. Additionally, regular requests via the Public API, as well as viewing and submitting requests through the Cloud Control Panel, may time out or fail for up to 5 minutes. We will endeavor to keep this to a minimum for the duration of the change.

If you have any questions related to this issue, please send us a ticket from your cloud support page. https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/createticket