Linode (Akamai) outage, 14 July 2026
Service Issue - Linode API/CLI
- Started
- Resolved
- 14 Jul 2026, 19:26 UTC (after 7 h 5 min)
- Impact
- Minor
- Affected
- Cloud Manager and API
Last update from Linode (Akamai)
On July 14, 2026, at 10:57 UTC, Akamai identified an increase in 502 errors and latency affecting customers using the Linode API, CLI, and Cloud Manager. This disruption resulted in moderate service impact, with customers reporting elevated error rates. Our initial investigation traced the issue to latency with IAM services, which was resolved, but elevated errors persisted. Further analysis by relevant subject matter experts determined that the incident was triggered by a manual failback to the Cloud IAM primary load balancer from the secondary load balancer. This action was prompted by a warning alert indicating that the secondary load balancer was acting as the keepalived master. The ma...
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