Outage report · Major outage
DigitalOcean outage on Aug 19, 2026
Major Service Interruption in MKC1
SeverityMajor outage
StartedAug 19, 2026, 11:10UTC
ResolvedAug 19, 2026, 19:34UTC
Duration8h 25m
What happened
DigitalOcean reported a major outage starting Aug 19, 2026, 11:10 UTC, affecting MKC1, MKC1. It was marked resolved at Aug 19, 2026, 19:34 UTC.
- The incident lasted 8h 25m from first report to resolution.
- It was the 3rd longest of 6 significant outages DigitalOcean reported in the 12 months up to it.
- DigitalOcean had reported 3 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
- 6 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.
Latest update from DigitalOcean
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.
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.
DigitalOcean's overall reliability
46.9/100
DigitalOcean has a reliability score of 46.9/100, with 98.04% effective uptime and 16 incidents over the last 90 days.
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