May 4, 21:01 UTC
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

May 4, 13:01 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

May 2, 13:25 UTC
Scheduled - Start: 2026-05-04 13:00 UTC
End: 2026-05-04 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

May 4, 15:00 UTC
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

May 4, 13:00 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

May 2, 12:39 UTC
Scheduled - Start: 2026-05-04 13:00 UTC
End: 2026-05-04 15:00 UTC

During the above window, our Networking team will be making changes to the core networking infrastructure to improve performance and scalability in the SFO2 region.

Expected impact:

We do not anticipate any downtime for Droplets or Droplet-related services, including Managed Databases, Load Balancers, App Platform, and Managed Kubernetes, as this maintenance has been carefully designed and tested to be seamless. In the unlikely event that an undetected misconfiguration occurs, a subset of customers could experience temporary network disruption. 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

May 4, 21:00 UTC
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

May 4, 13:00 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

May 2, 09:15 UTC
Scheduled - Start: 2026-05-04 13:00 UTC
End: 2025-05-04 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

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Apr 30, 19:00 UTC
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Apr 30, 16:00 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

Apr 28, 16:19 UTC
Scheduled - Start: Apr 30, 2026, 16:00 UTC to
End: Apr 30, 2026, 19:00 UTC

During the above window, our Networking team will be making changes to the core networking infrastructure to improve performance and scalability in the FRA1 region.

Expected impact:

We do not anticipate any downtime for Droplets or Droplet-related services, including Managed Databases, Load Balancers, App Platform, and Managed Kubernetes, as this maintenance has been carefully designed and tested to be seamless. In the unlikely event that an undetected misconfiguration occurs, a subset of customers could experience temporary network disruption. 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

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Apr 28, 19:33 UTC
Resolved - All services are operating normally. We will continue to monitor the system to ensure ongoing reliability.

Thank you for your patience while we worked to resolve this issue.

Apr 28, 19:00 UTC
Monitoring - Service for Serverless Inference has been restored.
We’ve implemented tighter rate limits to help prevent recurrence and are closely monitoring system performance. Some users may still experience intermittent latency as we complete final stabilization efforts.
Our team remains actively engaged to ensure full recovery. We appreciate your patience and will provide further updates as needed.

Apr 28, 15:59 UTC
Identified - We have identified an issue affecting our service and are currently working to implement a fix. Our team is actively investigating and taking the necessary steps to restore normal operations as quickly as possible.

We appreciate your patience and will provide updates as soon as more information becomes available.

Apr 28, 13:45 UTC
Investigating - Serverless inference customers are experiencing elevated 5xx errors, including “context canceled” responses. This may result in intermittent request failures. Our team is actively investigating and will provide updates as more information becomes available.