DigitalOcean outage, 24 August 2026
Cloud Control Panel and API
- Started
- Resolved
- 25 Aug 2026, 19:04 UTC (after 25 h 49 min)
- Impact
- Critical
- Affected
- API, Cloud Control Panel
Last update from DigitalOcean
## 1. What happened Between 16:56 UTC and 23:09 UTC on August 24, 2026, customers using DigitalOcean’s Cloud Control Panel, Public API, and dependent product management systems experienced elevated request error rates, peaking at 25%, in two distinct windows totaling 3.5 hours of active degradation within a 6-hour span. Running Droplets, network routing, and block storage \(Volumes\) remained fully functional and unaffected throughout the event. No customer data loss occurred. The event was initiated during a planned infrastructure migration of the database layer supporting identity, authentication, and authorization services. The migration introduced increased execution latency for a crit...
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