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Recent Incidents
Serverless Inference
Apr 15, 01:07 AM — Resolved Apr 15, 02:56 AM
From 23:20 UTC to 02:00 UTC, users may have experienced elevated error rates due to service instability, which resulted in intermittent HTTP 500 errors and terminated connections. Our Engineering team has confirmed full resolution of the issue, and all systems are now operating normally. If you continue to experience any issues, please open a ticket with our support team. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.
App Platform Deployments
Apr 14, 05:57 PM — Resolved Apr 14, 05:57 PM
From 16:07 to 16:50 UTC, Our Engineering team observed an issue with App Platform Deployments in all regions. During this time, App deployments of both new and existing apps would have been affected. Our team has fully resolved the issues as of 16:50 UTC. All new and existing App deployments should now be functioning as expected. If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team from within your Cloud Control Panel. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.
Managed Database Resizes
Apr 14, 12:53 PM — Resolved Apr 14, 03:19 PM
Our Engineering team has resolved the issue with resize operations for Managed Databases and should now be operating normally. If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team from within your Cloud Control Panel. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Droplet Availability in All Regions
Apr 10, 08:32 PM — Resolved Apr 10, 09:06 PM
Our Engineering team has confirmed full resolution of the issue with creating Droplets in all regions. Users should be able to create Droplets without issue. We apologize for the inconvenience. If you continue to face any issues, please open a support ticket from within your account.
Control Plane
Apr 7, 05:49 PM — Resolved Apr 7, 05:49 PM
Our Engineering team has resolved the control plane disruption that occurred from 17:06 to 17:18 UTC. During this time, users may have experienced intermittent issues with managing their resources through the Cloud Control Panel or DigitalOcean API. The root cause of the disruption was identified and addressed, and all services are now operating normally. If you continue to experience any problems, please open a ticket with our Support team. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
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