# DigitalOcean outage on 27 October 2026

> 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.

- Service: [DigitalOcean](https://stackpulse.app/services/digitalocean.md)
- Severity: major_outage
- Title on the status page: Kubernetes Cluster Management Operations
- Started: 2026-10-27 22:15 UTC
- Ended: 2026-10-28 01:55 UTC
- Lasted: 3 h 40 min
- Incident open on the status page: 22:14–01:55 UTC
- The status page's incident: https://stspg.io/b16t5y07v5l4
- Page: https://stackpulse.app/services/digitalocean/outages/2026-10-27-2215

## What broke when (UTC)

| Component | Status | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes - Global | degraded performance | 2026-10-27 22:14 | 2026-10-28 01:55 |

## At the same time

- [BigCommerce](https://stackpulse.app/services/bigcommerce.md): issue from 2026-10-27 21:24 UTC
- [Bluesky](https://stackpulse.app/services/bluesky.md): issue from 2026-10-27 21:42 UTC
- [Nequi](https://stackpulse.app/services/nequi.md): critical from 2026-10-27 21:54 UTC
- [Alura](https://stackpulse.app/services/alura.md): major_outage from 2026-10-27 22:12 UTC
- [MyAnimeList](https://stackpulse.app/services/myanimelist.md): major_outage from 2026-10-27 23:03 UTC
- [Square](https://stackpulse.app/services/square.md): issue from 2026-10-27 23:44 UTC
- [Musixmatch](https://stackpulse.app/services/musixmatch.md): issue from 2026-10-27 23:57 UTC
- [Apple](https://stackpulse.app/services/apple.md): major_outage from 2026-10-28 00:04 UTC

Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.

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