Linode incident

Issue in creating new LKE Enterprise cluster across regions.

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Linode experienced a minor incident on October 20, 2026 affecting US-East (Newark) Linode Kubernetes Engine and US-Central (Dallas) Linode Kubernetes Engine and 1 more component, lasting 9h 13m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Oct 20, 2026, 12:29 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 20, 2026, 09:42 PM UTC
Duration
9h 13m
Detected by Pingoru
Oct 20, 2026, 12:29 PM UTC

Affected components

US-East (Newark) Linode Kubernetes EngineUS-Central (Dallas) Linode Kubernetes EngineUS-West (Fremont) Linode Kubernetes EngineUS-Southeast (Atlanta) Linode Kubernetes EngineUS-IAD (Washington) Linode Kubernetes EngineUS-ORD (Chicago) Linode Kubernetes EngineCA-Central (Toronto) Linode Kubernetes EngineEU-West (London) Linode Kubernetes EngineEU-Central (Frankfurt) Linode Kubernetes EngineFR-PAR (Paris) Linode Kubernetes Engine

Update timeline

  1. identified Oct 20, 2026, 12:29 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating an issue affecting the provisioning of new LKE Enterprise (LKE-E) clusters across all regions. Affected clusters may experience nodes that successfully reach a "Ready" state, but system critical components may fail to start properly, preventing workloads from running.

  2. identified Oct 20, 2026, 12:33 PM UTC

    We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

  3. identified Oct 20, 2026, 12:34 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating an issue affecting the provisioning of new LKE Enterprise (LKE-E) clusters across all regions. Affected clusters may experience nodes that successfully reach a "Ready" state, but system critical components may fail to start properly, preventing workloads from running.

  4. identified Oct 20, 2026, 02:06 PM UTC

    Our team has identified the issue affecting the LKE Enterprise service. We are working quickly to implement a fix, and we will provide an update as soon as the solution is in place.

  5. resolved Oct 20, 2026, 09:42 PM UTC

    We haven’t observed any additional issues with the LKE service, and will now consider this incident resolved. If you continue to experience problems, please open a Support ticket for assistance.