DigitalOcean status: is it down right now?
Our own check of digitalocean.com from Europe and the US, every 3 minutes, with recent history.
digitalocean.com responded. The page answered normally in 47 ms.
digitalocean.com responded.
The page answered normally in 47 ms.
Checked (just now) from Europe and the US, automatic every 3 minutes.
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This checks the response from digitalocean.com. It does not test playback, login or every DigitalOcean feature.
DigitalOcean status history
Our own checks from Europe and the US. Green means every check passed, amber means some checks failed, red means most checks in that period failed.
Outages our checks detected
None since Oct 13. A problem has to fail two checks in a row before we record it.
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About DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean is a cloud provider popular with developers, indie hackers, and small-to-mid startups, running Droplets (VMs), App Platform (managed PaaS), Spaces (S3-compatible object storage), Managed Databases (Postgres, MySQL, Redis), Kubernetes (DOKS), Load Balancers, and a developer-friendly control panel. Outages are usually scoped per data center (NYC, SFO, FRA, AMS, BLR, SYD, TOR) or per product. Droplet host-node failures can affect a small subset of customers at a time. App Platform outages block deploys similarly to Heroku. Managed Database outages affect customers who did not set up read replicas or point-in-time recovery.
The official DigitalOcean status page is available as a reference. Official pages are useful, but they can lag behind real outages by minutes or hours.
outage patterns
What outages typically look like on DigitalOcean
Cloud platforms like DigitalOcean rarely fail in obvious, all-or-nothing ways. The more common pattern is regional degradation: one availability zone or geographic region runs at half capacity while the rest of the platform serves traffic normally. Status pages often show green because the aggregate health check is still passing, even when a customer's specific workload is degraded.
The live tool above checks the public digitalocean.com endpoint from EU and US and compares status and response time. That can reveal a regional reachability problem, but it cannot prove that every DigitalOcean product, API, or customer workload is healthy. Use the provider status reference and test the specific workflow you depend on before drawing a broader conclusion.
Common signs DigitalOcean is having issues
- Temporarily unavailable pages or requests timing out during normal browsing
- Sustained response-time drift above the DigitalOcean baseline (usually a precursor to hard failures)
- TLS handshake delays during peak hours that resolve at quieter times
- Regional disparity: one geography returns errors while another stays healthy
What to do when DigitalOcean is degraded
If DigitalOcean appears degraded, compare the EU and US endpoint results, open the provider status reference, and test the exact region and workflow your system uses. Preserve failed request IDs and timestamps for support. If only one region fails, use an alternate region only when your own failover policy permits it.
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Get independent uptime alerts when the public DigitalOcean endpoint fails a confirmed check. Solo and Starter check every 5 minutes; Business and Agency check every 60 seconds.
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Business and Agency support 60-second uptime checks.
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EU & US checks. Catch regional outages.
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why independent monitoring
Provider status references
and endpoint checks answer different questions.
Independent endpoint evidence
The regional check can show that a public endpoint is failing before or after a provider posts broader incident context. It does not validate every product subsystem.
Scheduled alerts
Monitor DigitalOcean on your plan interval and route confirmed endpoint failures through the notification channels available to your workspace.
Multi-region verification
EU and US results can reveal a regional difference in public-endpoint reachability. Confirm the exact workflow and provider region you use.
Historical data
Track DigitalOcean uptime over time. See trends, identify recurring issues, and make informed decisions about your dependency.
Frequently asked questions
Is DigitalOcean down right now?
See the latest check of digitalocean.com and its timestamp at the top of this page. If DigitalOcean is down, you can also check the official status page for extra context.
How do I check if DigitalOcean is having issues?
This page checks the public DigitalOcean endpoint from EU and US. You can also monitor that endpoint on a schedule and receive confirmed-failure alerts through the channels available on your plan. Test the exact provider feature you use for a complete diagnosis.
How can I get alerted when DigitalOcean goes down?
Add digitalocean.com to Visual Sentinel and its first check is free. To keep monitoring, start a 7-day trial (card required) or subscribe now: Solo and Starter check every 5 minutes, Business and Agency every 60 seconds, with email, push and chat alerts.
Where can I find DigitalOcean outage context?
The official DigitalOcean status page is available as a reference. Official pages are useful, but they can lag behind real outages by minutes or hours. Visual Sentinel checks the public DigitalOcean endpoint independently from EU and US. Paid Business and Agency plans support 60-second uptime checks.
What happens to my Droplet during a DO data-center outage?
Your Droplet becomes unreachable until the data center recovers. DigitalOcean does not automatically migrate Droplets between regions during an outage. Multi-region redundancy requires customer-side setup (load balancer + Droplets across regions).
Does DigitalOcean App Platform keep serving traffic during a build outage?
Yes. App Platform separates builds from runtime. Running apps stay online; deploys that were mid-build when the incident started may be rolled back. New pushes queue until the build infrastructure recovers.
Often checked together with DigitalOcean
Many sites and apps run on these platforms, so one cloud problem can affect services that look unrelated.