DigitalOcean outage on May 8, 2026
Nothing's wrong that we can see: all 7 DigitalOcean regions are currently healthy and there are no regional network anomalies detected, but Isitreallydown? does not yet have fresh synthetic probe or DNS measurements to confirm end-to-end connectivity (Telemetry confidence: medium). DigitalOcean’s official status page is reporting a major incident affecting the Gradient AI component (“GradientAI: Agent Platform Playground Interaction Errors”), and with otherwise quiet signals this looks component-specific rather than a broad platform disruption.
Cached · Tue, May 12, 2026, 12:33 PM UTC · scope: service signals
Status changed to Operational
The stored readout moved to Operational with confidence 55.00.
Incident detected
Major confidence crossed the incident threshold for Let's Encrypt Outage Affecting Certificate Issuance and Managed Databases Operations.
Marked resolved
The incident was closed after 45 min of observed impact.
- Official status
Status.Digitalocean.Com reported an open incident — Let's Encrypt Outage Affecting Certificate Issuance and Managed Databases Operations (Global, Global, Global) · impact: minor
09:00 PM UTC
Confidence scoring
80.00The incident reached 80.00 peak confidence across 18 stored status snapshots.
User reports
0 / 15mNo elevated user-report volume was preserved in the incident window snapshots.
Status samples
0 affectedThe incident row exists, but the bounded snapshot window does not include affected status samples.
Recovery signal
ResolvedRecovery was recorded at Fri, May 08, 2026, 09:31 PM UTC.
DigitalOcean users likely saw failed connections, degraded availability, or session instability for this Cloud service. The incident reached Major severity and lasted 45 min. The stored report window does not show a preserved user-report spike.