DigitalOcean experienced a minor incident on December 18, 2025 affecting API and Cloud Control Panel, lasting 2h 47m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Dec 18, 2025, 06:46 PM UTC
As of 17:47 UTC, our Engineering team is investigating reports of intermittent 504 errors when making requests to api.digitalocean.com and cloud.digitalocean.com. Users may experience sporadic errors, resulting in a 504 response code, when attempting to interact with our API or Cloud services. At this point, the issue appears to be intermittent, and not all requests are being affected. We apologize for the inconvenience and will share an update once we have more information.
- resolved Dec 18, 2025, 09:34 PM UTC
Our Engineering team has confirmed full resolution of the issue. Users should no longer experience errors when making requests to the Cloud Control Panel or API. If you experience any further problems or have any questions, please open a support ticket within your account.