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DigitalOcean status, outages & reliability

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DigitalOcean is a New York-based cloud provider offering virtual machines (Droplets), managed Kubernetes, databases, object storage and app hosting.

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · score recalculated

Over the last 90 days DigitalOcean had 98.04% effective uptime across 16 status page incidents (3 partial or major outages), resolving them in 6h 34m on average.

46.9/100Reliability scoreVisit DigitalOcean ↗

Is DigitalOcean down right now?

No, DigitalOcean is up and running.

  • DigitalOcean's status page reports all systems operational. Checked .
  • All 3 DigitalOcean pages we check are responding. Checked .

Official DigitalOcean status page ↗

Uptime (90d)98.04%1d 18h weighted downtime
Incidents (90d)162.8 per 30 days
Major / partial outages3
Avg time to resolve6h 34m
Outages we detected0by our independent probes

90-day uptime

Aug 4, 2026: 96.57% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 5, 2026: no incidentsAug 6, 2026: 98.71% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Aug 7, 2026: no incidentsAug 8, 2026: 96.85% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 9, 2026: 99.36% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 10, 2026 – Aug 18, 2026: no incidentsAug 19, 2026: 64.94% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Aug 20, 2026: no incidentsAug 21, 2026: 98.82% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 22, 2026: no incidentsAug 23, 2026: 94.14% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 24, 2026: 71.85% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Aug 25, 2026: 20.51% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Aug 26, 2026 – Sep 8, 2026: no incidentsSep 9, 2026: 98.97% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 10, 2026 – Sep 15, 2026: no incidentsSep 16, 2026: 92.90% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 17, 2026 – Oct 4, 2026: no incidentsOct 5, 2026: 99.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 6, 2026 – Oct 10, 2026: no incidentsOct 11, 2026: 99.08% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 12, 2026 – Oct 26, 2026: no incidentsOct 27, 2026: 96.34% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 28, 2026: 95.99% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 29, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago98.045% average daily uptimeToday
  • No incidents
  • Degraded
  • Partial outage
  • Major outage
  • No data

Key facts about DigitalOcean's reliability

  • Since Apr 28, 2026, the earliest date its published history covers, DigitalOcean published 50 incidents on its status page, 8 of them partial or major outages.
  • Its longest outage on record in that time was “Cloud Control Panel and API” on Aug 24, 2026, which lasted 1d 1h.
  • The part of DigitalOcean most often affected was Global (16 of 50 incidents).
  • DigitalOcean reported 16 incidents in the last 90 days, down from 33 in the 90 days before.
  • DigitalOcean's 90-day uptime of 98.04% is above the average for cloud providers (97.19%).
  • It resolves incidents faster than the typical cloud provider: 6h 34m on average, against a median of 14h 12m.

Score breakdown

Uptime · 40% weight
14
98.046% effective uptime
Incident frequency · 20% weight
49
2.83 weighted incidents per 30 days
Time to resolve · 20% weight
58
6h 34m average
Transparency · 20% weight
100
No unreported outages detected

How the score is calculated →

Incidents per month

0481216DecJan ’26FebMar1 degraded performance incident1Apr2 partial outage incidents8 degraded performance incidents10May1 partial outage incident2 degraded performance incidents3 informational incidents6Jun2 partial outage incidents11 degraded performance incidents3 informational incidents16Jul2 major outage incidents6 degraded performance incidents2 informational incidents10Aug2 degraded performance incidents2Sep1 partial outage incident2 degraded performance incidents2 informational incidents5OctNov
  • Major outage
  • Partial outage
  • Degraded
  • Informational

Response time

Daily average response time of DigitalOcean's public pages, measured by our probes.

Not enough data yet — this chart fills in as our monitoring runs.

Score trend

Daily reliability score (rolling 90-day window).

Not enough data yet — this chart fills in as our monitoring runs.

DigitalOcean incident history (last 90 days)

Source: DigitalOcean status page · last checked

Our independent monitoring

We check these public DigitalOcean pages every 5 minutes. An outage is recorded after two consecutive failed checks.

PageLast checkUptime (30d)Avg response
HomepageUp 100%665 ms
Control panel loginUp 100%521 ms
Public APIUp 100%229 ms

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DigitalOcean status FAQ

Is DigitalOcean down right now?

No, DigitalOcean is up and running. DigitalOcean's status page currently reports all systems operational, and all 3 of the DigitalOcean pages we check every five minutes are responding. This page updates automatically when that changes.

How reliable is DigitalOcean?

DigitalOcean has a reliability score of 46.9 out of 100, ranking #6 of 9 cloud providers. Over the last 90 days it had 98.04% effective uptime.

How often does DigitalOcean have outages?

DigitalOcean published 16 incidents on its status page in the last 90 days (3 partial or major outages) and 50 in the past 12 months.

How long do DigitalOcean outages last?

DigitalOcean resolves incidents in 6h 34m on average. Its longest outage in the past year lasted 1d 1h, on Aug 24, 2026.

Does DigitalOcean have a status page?

Yes. DigitalOcean's official status page is status.digitalocean.com. We read it every five minutes and keep its full incident history.