- Sources: status page, discussion
- Summary: DigitalOcean reports elevated 5xx error rates on the public API and the Cloud Control Panel across two windows starting 2026-08-24, the second running from 22:27 UTC on 2026-08-24 to mitigation at 00:54 UTC on 2026-08-25. The status page states that running droplets and existing resources kept serving traffic. The incident was still open in monitoring at fetch time, with an update posted 16:30 UTC on 2026-08-25 stating that engineering has seen no recurrence for 12 or more hours and will monitor for a short period before marking it resolved.
- Why it matters: Control-plane failure blocked resource creates and any automation calling the public API across two windows on 2026-08-24 and 2026-08-25, while the data plane kept serving traffic.
- Follow-up: The postmortem on root cause and mitigation that DigitalOcean states it will publish on the status page.
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