DigitalOcean outage on 27 October 2026
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“Kubernetes Cluster Management Operations”
On 27 October, DigitalOcean had a problem with Managed Kubernetes cluster management from 22:15 to 01:55 UTC on 28 October, lasting 3 h 40 min. During that time customers in all regions may have seen delays or failures when creating, deleting, scaling or upgrading clusters. The status page said existing workloads were not affected and reported a fix at 01:34, with the issue marked resolved at 01:55. BigCommerce, Bluesky, Nequi, Alura, MyAnimeList, Square and Musixmatch also reported problems during the same period.
DigitalOcean’s own incident page ↗- When
- 22:15–01:55 UTC
- How long
- 3 h 40 min
- Incident open on its page
- 22:14–01:55 UTC
- Components affected
- 1
- DigitalOcean, 30 days before
- No other outages
What broke when
From DigitalOcean’s own status page: when it moved each component into trouble, and back.
At the same time
Started in the hour before or during it
And 146 lesser-known services. Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.
Timeline
Times in UTC
- Investigating
- Kubernetes - Global: degraded performance
- Fix in place, monitoring
- Resolved
- Kubernetes - Global: back to normal
Where this comes from
Stackpulse reads DigitalOcean’s official status page at status.digitalocean.com every minute. The times above are when it reported the problem; the summary is written from its updates and checked against them.
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