DigitalOcean outage on Oct 27, 2026

What happened

DigitalOcean reported a partial outage starting Oct 27, 2026, 22:14 UTC, affecting Global. It was marked resolved at Oct 28, 2026, 01:55 UTC.

• The incident lasted 3h 40m from first report to resolution.
• DigitalOcean had reported 2 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
• 5 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from DigitalOcean

We have resolved the issue affecting Managed Kubernetes cluster operations across all regions. Cluster creation, deletion, scaling, and upgrade operations have returned to normal. We have monitored the environment and confirmed that services are operating normally. If you continue to experience any issues, please contact our Support team by opening a ticket here: https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/

Read DigitalOcean's official incident report ↗

What our independent monitoring saw

Our independent monitoring of DigitalOcean started after this incident, so this report is based on DigitalOcean's status page.

Other outages around the same time

Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.

• Partial outageCloudflareOct 27, 2026, 12:28 UTC

  ERR_TIMED_OUT and ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE being observed by Cloudflare Customers

• Major outageTripleseatOct 27, 2026, 13:57 UTC

  New incident: "Login Issues"

• Partial outageAxiomOct 27, 2026, 15:25 UTC

  Elevated errors from queries

• Partial outageStaxOct 27, 2026, 18:17 UTC

  Potential Funding Delay

• Major outageXeroOct 28, 2026, 09:33 UTC

  Global: Xero - customers are experiencing issues across Xero

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