Is DigitalOcean down right now?
No — DigitalOcean is up. All systems operational as of Aug 28, 2:47 AM UTC.
Current Status
All Systems Operational
Components
Recent Incidents
Cloud Control Panel and API
criticalAug 24, 2026 · resolved Aug 25
Our Engineering team has confirmed all services remain stable and we will now resolve this incident. Further details on root cause and mitigation will be provided in a postmortem via this status page for users interested in learning more. Thank you for your patience throughout this incident. If you continue to experience any issues, please reach out to Support from within your account
Managed Databases Creation
minorAug 23, 2026 · resolved Aug 23
Our Engineering team has resolved the issue preventing cluster creation on Managed Databases in the NYC3 and NYC1 regions. Customers can now create new Managed Databases Clusters normally. Our Engineering team has monitored the environment to ensure stability. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this disruption may have caused to your operations. If you continue to experience issues, please open a ticket with our Support team: https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/
Container Registry and Spaces Accessibility
minorAug 21, 2026 · resolved Aug 21
Our Engineering team has confirmed that the issue impacting Container Registry and Spaces accessibility has been resolved. Spaces accessibility via the Cloud Control Panel is now restored, and pushing and pulling container images is succeeding as expected. Customers who previously encountered these issues should now be able to access Spaces and deploy their container images without further issues. If you continue to experience any problems, please open a ticket with our support team. Thank you for your patience, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
Major Service Interruption in MKC1
criticalAug 19, 2026 · resolved Aug 19
Our Engineering team has confirmed the regional control plane is healthy and CPU Droplets, Managed databases, Load balancers, Block storage, Kubernetes (DOKS) and Spaces are operating normally. GPU Droplets continue to be impacted and our teams are working to restore all nodes. We will communicate with GPU Droplet customers separately via Slack and email with more information and regular updates. Thank you for your patience throughout this incident. If you continue to experience any issues, please open a support ticket from within your account.
Volume Attach/Detach events in FRA1
noneAug 13, 2026 · resolved Aug 13
Between Aug 13, 09:50 UTC and 14:30 UTC, customers in the FRA1 region experienced an issue affecting Block Storage Volumes attachment and detachment operations on Droplets and Managed Kubernetes clusters. During this window, customers may have encountered delays or been unable to attach and detach Block Storage Volumes from their resources. Block Storage Volumes attachment and detachment operations now appear to be functioning normally, and customers should no longer experience issues with these operations. For Managed Kubernetes clusters specifically, some residual cleanup of affected volume attachments may still be needed, and our team is actively working through this. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. If you continue to experience issues with Block Storage Volumes operations, please don't hesitate to open a support ticket for further investigation. Our team will be happy to assist you.
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DigitalOcean status — frequently asked questions
Is DigitalOcean down right now?
No — DigitalOcean is up. All systems operational as of Aug 28, 2:47 AM UTC.
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