Octopus Outage History

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Octopus had 33 outages in the last 2 years totaling 667h 6m of downtime — averaging 1.4 incidents per month.

There were 33 Octopus outages since June 18, 2024 totaling 667h 6m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.octopus.com

Major May 15, 2026

Amazon ECS Service Steps fail with 'Container.image contains invalid cha...

Detected by Pingoru
May 15, 2026, 12:36 PM UTC
Resolved
May 18, 2026, 10:49 AM UTC
Duration
2d 22h
Affected: Octopus Cloud
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. identified May 15, 2026, 12:36 PM UTC

    We have identified the issue and are working on a fix. If you are experiencing this please see the Github issue below for workarounds - https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/Issues/issues/10026

  2. resolved May 18, 2026, 10:49 AM UTC

    We have pushed out a fix for this issue and it should be rolling out to Octopus Cloud customers over the next few days. Please contact [email protected] if you are seeing this issue and we can arrange to get your instance upgraded.

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Major May 5, 2026

Dynamic Worker issues in West US 2

Detected by Pingoru
May 05, 2026, 01:18 PM UTC
Resolved
May 07, 2026, 06:40 AM UTC
Duration
1d 17h
Affected: Octopus Cloud
Timeline · 5 updates
  1. identified May 05, 2026, 01:18 PM UTC

    We have observed issues provisioning Dynamic Workers in our West US 2 region. We are working on mitigations and monitoring. A small number of customers have experienced lease failures.

  2. identified May 05, 2026, 01:25 PM UTC

    We are in the process of switching Octopus Cloud instances in the West US 2 region to use dynamic workers in our standby region (Central US). Customers who have experienced leasing failures should retry their deployments or runbook runs.

  3. monitoring May 05, 2026, 01:43 PM UTC

    We have completed switching Octopus Cloud instances in the West US 2 region to use dynamic workers in our standby region (Central US). This should mitigate this issue for all customers. We will update this incident when dynamic workers in West US 2 are stable and we have reverted all Cloud instances back to using workers in West US 2.

  4. monitoring May 07, 2026, 12:51 AM UTC

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  5. resolved May 07, 2026, 06:40 AM UTC

    We have not observed any further issues in the West US 2 region so all Octopus Cloud instances in the West US 2 region are using dynamic workers in West US 2 once again.

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Major April 1, 2026

AWS Deployment Failures for Cloud Customers

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 01, 2026, 08:36 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 08, 2026, 04:11 AM UTC
Duration
6d 19h
Affected: Octopus Cloud
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Apr 01, 2026, 08:06 AM UTC

    We are aware of an issue affecting Octopus Cloud customers running deployments that interact with AWS, including EKS/Kubernetes targets and AWS health checks. Impacted customers may see authentication errors when running these deployments. Our team is actively investigating and working to resolve the issue. Workaround: If you are affected, adding your AWS region as an environment variable in your script steps may resolve the issue: export AWS_REGION= for Bash $env:AWS_REGION = "" for Powershell E.g export AWS_REGION=ap-southeast-2 $env:AWS_REGION = "ap-southeast-2" We apologise for the disruption and will share further updates as our investigation progresses. If you need help in the meantime, please contact us at [email protected]

  2. investigating Apr 01, 2026, 08:36 AM UTC

    We are aware of an issue affecting Octopus Cloud customers running deployments that interact with AWS, including EKS/Kubernetes targets and AWS health checks. Impacted customers may see authentication errors when running these deployments. Our team is actively investigating and working to resolve the issue. Workaround: If you are affected, adding your AWS region as an environment variable in your script steps may resolve the issue: export AWS_REGION=[REGION] for Bash $env:AWS_REGION = "[REGION]" for Powershell E.g export AWS_REGION=ap-southeast-2 $env:AWS_REGION = "ap-southeast-2" We apologise for the disruption and will share further updates as our investigation progresses. If you need help in the meantime, please contact us at [email protected]

  3. resolved Apr 08, 2026, 04:11 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Major March 30, 2026

Deployments using AWS-dependent resources may fail with “No RegionEndpoint or ServiceURL configured.”

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 30, 2026, 12:43 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 30, 2026, 12:43 PM UTC
Duration
Affected: Octopus Cloud
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Mar 30, 2026, 12:43 PM UTC

    We have identified the cause of this issue and have produced a fix in Octopus version 2026.2.3825. Please email [email protected] if you are seeing AWS region endpoint errors in your deployments similar to the one in the title and we can discuss upgrade options.

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Major March 24, 2026

gRPC port (8443) shows Octopus Cloud instance is Undergoing Maintenance

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 24, 2026, 04:13 AM UTC
Resolved
Mar 25, 2026, 06:09 AM UTC
Duration
1d 1h
Affected: Octopus Cloud
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Mar 24, 2026, 04:13 AM UTC

    We have identified the cause and are working to complete it as quickly as possible. We will provide another update once the issue is resolved.

  2. identified Mar 24, 2026, 04:13 AM UTC

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  3. monitoring Mar 24, 2026, 05:58 AM UTC

    We have a resolution for the issue, and it should be rolled out to customer instances during their next maintenance windows. If this blocks your deployments in the meantime, please reach out to support.

  4. resolved Mar 25, 2026, 06:09 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved. Please don't hesitate to reach out to our support team if you are still having any related problems.

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Major February 26, 2026

Emails are currently not being delivered

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 26, 2026, 01:51 AM UTC
Resolved
Feb 26, 2026, 05:47 AM UTC
Duration
3h 55m
Affected: Octopus CloudControl Center (billing.octopus.com)Sign-in/Sign-up (octopus.com)
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. identified Feb 26, 2026, 01:51 AM UTC

    Our upstream email provider is currently experiencing issues delivering emails from Octopus. This impacts all emails, including email verification during authentication, Octopus Cloud subscription invitations, and billing notifications. We're currently investigating and will update this page when we know more.

  2. identified Feb 26, 2026, 05:11 AM UTC

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

  3. identified Feb 26, 2026, 05:32 AM UTC

    Sign-in/sign-up emails have been restored. Note: emails will now be sent from [email protected]

  4. resolved Feb 26, 2026, 05:47 AM UTC

    Email services have now been restored. Please contact [email protected] if you encounter any issues with email delivery.

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Major November 18, 2025

GitHub upstream outage causing issues with VCS-backed elements

Detected by Pingoru
Nov 18, 2025, 09:11 PM UTC
Resolved
Nov 19, 2025, 12:47 AM UTC
Duration
3h 36m
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Nov 18, 2025, 09:11 PM UTC

    GitHub is experiencing issue with git operations, resulting in in-product git operations to be degraded or fail. We're continuing to monitor this upstream outage.

  2. monitoring Nov 18, 2025, 10:01 PM UTC

    GitHub reports that git operations have been restored. We will continue to monitor this situation.

  3. resolved Nov 19, 2025, 12:47 AM UTC

    We have observed no further errors stemming from this issue.

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Critical October 29, 2025

Octopus.com and billing portal may be unavailable in certain regions

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 29, 2025, 04:31 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 30, 2025, 01:13 AM UTC
Duration
8h 41m
Affected: Octopus.comOctopus CloudControl Center (billing.octopus.com)Octopus GitHub AppSign-in/Sign-up (octopus.com)
Timeline · 6 updates
  1. investigating Oct 29, 2025, 04:31 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating the issue.

  2. identified Oct 29, 2025, 04:39 PM UTC

    It appears this outage is due to a DNS issue with our upstream provider. We are currently awaiting for mitigation from the upstream provider to restore Octopus.com and related services.

  3. identified Oct 29, 2025, 07:00 PM UTC

    Customers may notice intermittent access to Octopus.com and Octopus services. Our upstream provider has made progress to mitigate the issue. We will continue to monitor the situation. We have contingency plans we are prepared to deploy if service recovery progress from the upstream provider mitigation stalls.

  4. identified Oct 29, 2025, 09:13 PM UTC

    As we continue to monitor Octopus.com and Octopus services, metrics are showing services becoming more reliably available. Our upstream provider is currently estimating full or near full mitigation approximately 2 hours from now (approximately 23:20 UTC on 29 October 2025). We will provide additional updates as the situation necessitates.

  5. identified Oct 29, 2025, 11:57 PM UTC

    As we continue to monitor Octopus.com and Octopus services, metrics are showing services becoming more reliably available. We are still waiting for our upstream provider's resolution and expect to give another update approximately 1 hour from now (approximately 00:55 UTC on 30 October 2025). We will continue to provide additional updates as the situation necessitates.

  6. resolved Oct 30, 2025, 01:13 AM UTC

    All Octopus services affected by this outage are now operational.

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Major October 20, 2025

Docker Hub is down

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 20, 2025, 07:34 AM UTC
Resolved
Oct 21, 2025, 01:11 AM UTC
Duration
17h 37m
Affected: Octopus.comOctopus Cloud
Timeline · 5 updates
  1. identified Oct 20, 2025, 07:34 AM UTC

    Docker Hub experienced issues that prevented access to container images, resulting in deployment failures for projects relying on those images.

  2. monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 12:44 PM UTC

    Docker Hub experienced issues that prevented access to container images, resulting in deployment failures for projects relying on those images.

  3. monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 12:48 PM UTC

    Most of the Docker Hub services seem to be operational but the incident is still on-going.

  4. monitoring Oct 21, 2025, 12:15 AM UTC

    Most of the Docker Hub services seem to be operational and we are continuing to monitor the situation

  5. resolved Oct 21, 2025, 01:11 AM UTC

    Docker Hub have resolved their incident and we have not observed any further issues

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Major October 12, 2025

Kubernetes deployments using Kubernetes agent may fail

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 12, 2025, 11:43 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 13, 2025, 12:24 AM UTC
Duration
41m
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Oct 12, 2025, 11:43 PM UTC

    We have identified an issue where Kubernetes deployments using the Kubernetes agent may fail due to a failure to pull the octopusdeploy/kubernetes-agent-tools-base docker image.

  2. monitoring Oct 12, 2025, 11:45 PM UTC

    We have fixed the issue and pushed the missing tags to DockerHub. Kubernetes agent deployments should be working again.

  3. resolved Oct 13, 2025, 12:24 AM UTC

    This has been resolved. All missing tags have been published to DockerHub and we are seeing successful deployments using these new tags.

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Major September 25, 2025

Docker Hub authentication issues

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 25, 2025, 01:06 AM UTC
Resolved
Sep 25, 2025, 04:18 AM UTC
Duration
3h 12m
Affected: Octopus.comOctopus Cloud
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. identified Sep 25, 2025, 01:06 AM UTC

    Docker Hub is experiencing an active incident: https://www.dockerstatus.com/pages/incident/533c6539221ae15e3f000031/68d47a2f93c09e05486d93a9 Octopus customers may experience issues pulling images from Docker Hub, including: 1. Octopus Server self-host images 2. Deployment process container images including execution containers and reference packages hosted by Docker Workarounds are available, please contact [email protected].

  2. monitoring Sep 25, 2025, 01:23 AM UTC

    Docker has implemented a fix and we are monitoring.

  3. resolved Sep 25, 2025, 04:18 AM UTC

    The Docker Hub incident is resolved and we have not observed any ongoing issues.

  4. postmortem Oct 09, 2025, 03:37 AM UTC

    # **Incident Summary** Docker Hub experienced authentication issues that prevented access to container images, resulting in deployment failures for projects relying on those images. ## **What We're Doing** Following this incident, we've identified several improvements to enhance service resilience and customer communication: ### **Visibility & Monitoring** * Communicate third-party service outages more clearly on our status page * Explore in-app messaging to alert customers during service disruptions ### **Resilience & Good Practices** * Review image retrieval reliability and address identified risks * Share good practices with customers to help reduce impacts when Docker Hub is unavailable

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Major September 15, 2025

Intermittent Azure authentication issues

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 15, 2025, 03:11 AM UTC
Resolved
Sep 15, 2025, 06:05 AM UTC
Duration
2h 54m
Affected: Octopus Cloud
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Sep 15, 2025, 03:11 AM UTC

    We are investigating reports of intermittent Azure authentication issues during deployments and runbook runs. We are working with Microsoft to resolve this issue.

  2. monitoring Sep 15, 2025, 05:57 AM UTC

    The downstream issue with running `az login` commands in Azure steps appears to be working again. We will be continuing to monitor this.

  3. resolved Sep 15, 2025, 06:05 AM UTC

    The downstream issue with Azure CLI login commands has been resolved by Azure.

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Minor September 4, 2025

(Resolved) Some Deployments/Runbooks in Octopus Cloud may be failing to start

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 04, 2025, 02:31 AM UTC
Resolved
Sep 05, 2025, 03:50 AM UTC
Duration
1d 1h
Affected: Octopus Cloud
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. monitoring Sep 04, 2025, 02:31 AM UTC

    Symptom: The Deployment or Runbook appears to have started but has not produced any logs after an extended period of time. Mitigation: Manually cancel the Deployment or Runbook, then re-run the task. Please note that cancellation may take approximately 10 minutes. After the next maintenance window all affected tasks will be automatically cancelled. Please reach out to https://octopus.com/support if you would like tasks to be automatically cancelled earlier.

  2. resolved Sep 05, 2025, 03:50 AM UTC

    This issue is resolved, please reach out to https://octopus.com/support if you are still experiencing deployments that fail to start.

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Minor May 22, 2025

octopus.com/downloads degraded

Detected by Pingoru
May 22, 2025, 11:35 PM UTC
Resolved
May 23, 2025, 03:34 AM UTC
Duration
3h 59m
Affected: Octopus.com
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating May 22, 2025, 11:35 PM UTC

    octopus.com/downloads top navigation bar is failing to load correctly. We are investigating the cause. Links to downloads from this website are still correct. Please reload the page if you cannot see the content.

  2. identified May 23, 2025, 01:40 AM UTC

    We have identified the issue with the top navigation bar loading and are working on a fix.

  3. monitoring May 23, 2025, 03:27 AM UTC

    We have shipped a change to fix the navigation bar issue and are monitoring to ensure it works in all regions.

  4. resolved May 23, 2025, 03:34 AM UTC

    We have fixed the issue with the navigation bar on octopus.com/downloads

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Major March 28, 2025

ECS Update steps failing to execute

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 28, 2025, 11:54 AM UTC
Resolved
Mar 28, 2025, 01:10 PM UTC
Duration
1h 16m
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Mar 28, 2025, 11:54 AM UTC

    We are aware of an issue where a recent update has caused ECS Update steps to fail deployment.

  2. monitoring Mar 28, 2025, 12:02 PM UTC

    We have uploaded a new version of the ECS Update step. Affected customers can manually force a re-acquisition of the updated packages via the following steps 1. Go to Tasks 2. Click Show Advanced filters 3. Check "Include System Tasks" 4. Select the "Acquire new steps and targets" from the Task Type 5. Choose the most previously run task 6. Select "Re-run" from the context menu (3 dots).

  3. resolved Mar 28, 2025, 01:10 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor March 5, 2025

Performance issues identified with Octopus Cloud

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 05, 2025, 02:17 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 05, 2025, 10:23 PM UTC
Duration
8h 5m
Affected: Octopus Cloud
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Mar 05, 2025, 02:17 PM UTC

    Octopus Deploy is aware of performance issues for some customers on Octopus Cloud. Our engineers are investigating and we will provide an update soon.

  2. investigating Mar 05, 2025, 04:17 PM UTC

    We continue to see issues with our upstream to instances within the WestEU region. We are awaiting further information from Azure.

  3. resolved Mar 05, 2025, 10:23 PM UTC

    Azure have advised us this issue has been mitigated. Octopus Cloud instances in the West Europe region were affected on 5 March from 6 AM to 5 PM UTC. Azure will be providing us with a Root Cause Analysis, after which we can share more information.

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Minor February 12, 2025

ADO 'Use Octopus CLI Tool' step Certificate Issue

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 12, 2025, 01:47 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 12, 2025, 09:36 PM UTC
Duration
7h 49m
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Feb 12, 2025, 01:47 PM UTC

    We're investigating an issue with the v5 and below versions of the step 'Use Octopus CLI Tool' on build servers where customers are seeing the error 'unable to verify the first certificate'. This is currently affecting customer deployments due to not being able to install the depreciated version of the OctoCLI. The v6 versions of our ADO extension tasks do not require the OctoCLI so upgrading to our v6 steps will resolve this issue. Find out more information about the migration to the new step version here: https://octopus.com/blog/azure-devops-octopus-v6

  2. monitoring Feb 12, 2025, 04:32 PM UTC

    We have updated the certificate chain on our host, which has resolved the verification issues. We are continuing to monitor the outcome of this change.

  3. resolved Feb 12, 2025, 09:36 PM UTC

    We've had no further reports of this issue following the certificate update, and customers have indicated that they are back up and deploying. If you encounter any further issues, please email [email protected]

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Major January 30, 2025

Intermittent service disruption for a small number of customers

Detected by Pingoru
Jan 30, 2025, 07:24 AM UTC
Resolved
Feb 04, 2025, 03:07 AM UTC
Duration
4d 19h
Affected: Octopus Cloud
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Jan 30, 2025, 07:24 AM UTC

    Internal monitoring notified us that a small number of Octopus Cloud instances were terminated for excess memory use up to 12 hours after a recent a software upgrade. These instances were automatically restarted and resumed functioning correctly. At this stage we are investigating to determine the cause of the excess memory use. If you believe you are affected by this issue please contact [email protected]

  2. resolved Feb 04, 2025, 03:07 AM UTC

    Two seperate recent changes were identified as causes of the excess memory use. These changes have been rolled back, and we have confirmed through monitoring that memory use has returned to normal on the affected instances. No further crashes terminations have been observed.

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Major January 14, 2025

Config as Code projects might be affected by Github incident

Detected by Pingoru
Jan 14, 2025, 12:12 AM UTC
Resolved
Jan 14, 2025, 12:38 AM UTC
Duration
25m
Affected: Octopus Cloud
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. identified Jan 14, 2025, 12:12 AM UTC

    For customers using Github to store Config As Code projects, an ongoing incident (https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/qd96yfgvmcf9) with Github is affecting the loading of those projects. There is no impact to projects that are using database storage.

  2. resolved Jan 14, 2025, 12:38 AM UTC

    The Github incident has been resolved, we have confirmed that Config-as-Code project loading is working correctly

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Major January 7, 2025

Octopus Cloud service may be unavailable for some customers

Detected by Pingoru
Jan 07, 2025, 12:20 AM UTC
Resolved
Jan 07, 2025, 03:10 AM UTC
Duration
2h 49m
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Jan 07, 2025, 12:20 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating the issue.

  2. identified Jan 07, 2025, 01:17 AM UTC

    14 Instances are down at this time. We've identified the issue and are working to restore services as a matter of priority.

  3. monitoring Jan 07, 2025, 01:55 AM UTC

    Root cause has been identified and mitigated. All Instances are now running. Further updates will be provided shortly.

  4. resolved Jan 07, 2025, 03:10 AM UTC

    All affected Instances are now up and healthy.

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Major December 9, 2024

Package Acquisition step sometimes fails with exception

Detected by Pingoru
Dec 09, 2024, 09:32 PM UTC
Resolved
Dec 11, 2024, 12:08 AM UTC
Duration
1d 2h
Affected: Octopus Cloud
Timeline · 6 updates
  1. investigating Dec 09, 2024, 09:32 PM UTC

    Some Octopus Cloud customers are having intermittent issues with package acquisition steps throwing exceptions. We are currently investigating.

  2. identified Dec 09, 2024, 11:56 PM UTC

    We are continuing to actively work on this issue. We have identified the issue and are testing a potential mitigation/fix. We are also continuing to investigate the underlying causes of the issue to build confidence our mitigation will work as expected.

  3. identified Dec 10, 2024, 01:39 AM UTC

    We are continuing to actively work on resolving this issue. Our first potential mitigation didn't work as expected. We have a second potential mitigation that is performing better in testing. We will update here if/when we ship it.

  4. identified Dec 10, 2024, 02:13 AM UTC

    We've identified the underlying code change that caused this issue to start appearing. We have a fix for it that will be rolling out to Cloud customers as quickly as possible. Self-hosted customers will not be affected.

  5. monitoring Dec 10, 2024, 07:27 AM UTC

    The fix is now rolling out to Cloud. If this issue is affecting you, please reach out to the support team to ask them to upgrade your instance to the latest version.

  6. resolved Dec 11, 2024, 12:08 AM UTC

    The fix has been released to Cloud - if you are still encountering issues, please ask the support team to upgrade your instance to 2025.1.3365

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