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Feb 20, 00:20 UTC
Resolved - From February 6 21:28:35 UTC to February 19 23:14:00 UTC, users may have experienced issues receiving monitoring alerts for tagged resources.
Our Engineering team has resolved the issue, alerts for tagged resources are now working properly and users should now start receiving new alerts going forward.
If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Feb 19, 23:46 UTC
Monitoring - Our engineering team has implemented a fix for the issues that affect receiving monitoring alerts for tagged resources, and are currently monitoring the situation. Any alerts that should've been received beginning February 6th to today will not be received, but new alerts for tagged resources should work going forward.
We appreciate your patience, we will post an update once we've confirmed the issue is fully resolved.
Feb 19, 20:36 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is investigating reports that alerts are not received when alerts are configured with tags. Users may not receive email notification of alerts when using tags, although resources specified by name are still monitored and receiving alerts properly.
We apologize for the inconvenience and will share an update once we have more information.
El sector de la construcción sigue en vilo ante la incertidumbre por la indefinición de la reforma de la Ley de Intereses Preferenciales. Desde hace meses los créditos hipotecarios preferenciales no se están aprobando en la mayoría de los bancos y tampoco se están construyendo nuevos desarrollos inmobiliarios.
En una reunión en la Cámara Panameña de la Construcción, representantes de este sector, junto con desarrolladores de proyectos inmobiliarios residenciales y promotores, hicieron un llamado al Gobierno para que se acelere la aprobación de la reforma y se definan las reglas del juego para que se vuelvan a reactivar los préstamos subsidiados y la construcción.
El presidente de Capac, Alejandro Ferrer Solís, indicó que tanto la eliminación del Fondo Solidario de Vivienda que venció en junio de 2024, como la falta de pago del subsidio de las tasas de interés a los bancos, ha generado por una parte que se paralicen varias obras de construcción de viviendas de interés preferencial y que además, que la mayoría de los bancos no estén otorgando créditos subsidiados.
“Hay 75 proyectos retenidos que no van a arrancar hasta que no se apruebe esta ley de Intereses Preferenciales, entendemos que hay una situación fiscal y presupuestaria pero tenemos que tener esta ley con las reglas claras. Se calcula que el mercado inmobiliario en el último año pudo haber perdido 300 millones de dólares”, dijo Ferrer Solís al referirse al vencimiento del Fondo Solidario de Vivienda.

Señaló que la situación actual, derivada del próximo vencimiento de la Ley de Interés Preferencial, en los tramos 1 y 2 de vivienda, hasta 120 mil dólares ha impactado de manera inmediata en la pérdida de más de 12 mil plazas de empleo, una caída significativa en la recaudación de impuestos municipales y la incertidumbre de las familias cuyos créditos aprobados fueron descartados, afectando gravemente su posibilidad de acceder a una vivienda propia.
“La paralización de la construcción de viviendas de carácter social podría resultar en una drástica pérdida de empleos. El sector de la construcción representa el 7.8% del empleo nacional, según cifras oficiales del Inec a octubre 2024. Entre 2023 y 2024, se perdieron más de 12 mil empleos en el sector, lo que representa una disminución del 7.57%. Además, el empleo formal (pleno empleo) también disminuyó en un 6.92%, comparado con agosto de 2023″.



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Feb 11, 11:44 UTC
Resolved - Our Engineering team has confirmed the full resolution of the issue affecting the Spaces Buckets creation and App Platform deployment in BLR1 region . All our services in the region should now be functioning normally.
Users should no longer experience any issues with the creation of Spaces Buckets and App Platform application creations and deployments.
If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team from within your Cloud Control Panel. Thank you for your patience and we apologize for any inconvenience.
Feb 11, 10:38 UTC
Monitoring - Our engineering team has identified the cause and deployed a fix for the issue with Spaces Buckets creation and App Platform deployment in BLR1 region.
Spaces Buckets and App Platform application creations and deployments should now function as expected.
We are actively monitoring the situation and will provide an update once we confirm the incident is completely resolved.
Feb 11, 10:18 UTC
Identified - Our Engineering team has identified the cause of the issue affecting the creation of Spaces Buckets and App Platform application creations and deployments in BLR1. The impact is mitigated by implementing a temporary fix and is actively working on a permanent fix.
Users should now be able to create Spaces Bucket and deploy App Platform application in the BLR1 region.
We apologize for the inconvenience and will provide further updates as more information becomes available.
Feb 11, 09:07 UTC
Investigating - As of 08:32 UTC, our Engineering team is investigating an issue affecting the creation of Spaces Buckets in BLR1. During this period, users may also have experienced errors in DigitalOcean Container Registry creations and App Platform application creations and deployments.
We apologize for the inconvenience and will share an update once we have more information.



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Feb 6, 01:29 UTC
Resolved - From 00:04 UTC to 00:41 UTC, users experienced issues accessing the Cloud Control Panel and API as well as experienced event failures.
Our Engineering team has resolved the issue, and Cloud Control Panel, API and events should now be functioning normally.
If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Feb 6, 01:01 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has implemented a fix regarding the issue impacting our Cloud Control Panel and API. We are monitoring the situation to ensure there is no recurrence.
We will post another update once we confirm the issue is fully resolved.
Feb 6, 00:37 UTC
Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Feb 6, 00:27 UTC
Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Feb 6, 00:26 UTC
Investigating - As of 00:16 UTC, our Engineering team is investigating an issue impacting our Cloud Control Panel and API.
During this time, users will experience errors when trying to use the public API at api.digitalocean.com or while accessing our Cloud Control Panel at https://cloud.digitalocean.com. Users may also see issues with processing Droplet and Kubernetes cluster creations along with Droplet based events.
We are now confirming the full impact. We regret any inconvenience and will let you know as soon as more information is available.