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No open incidents in its feed as of Oct 17, 2026, 12:53 UTC. The latest, "DNS Resolution for Managed Kubernetes" (reported Oct 11, 2026, 22:01 UTC), is marked Resolved.
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Recent incidents
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- DNS Resolution for Managed Kubernetes
Our Engineering team is investigating an issue causing intermittent external DNS lookup failures for Managed Kubernetes clusters in multiple regions. Applications running on affected clusters may intermittently fail to resolve external domain names. We apologize for the inconveni…
- VPC Networking Availability
Our Engineering team identified a disruption affecting VPC Networking operations that began at approximately 08:48 UTC. During this time, customers may have experienced delays or failures when creating or deleting VPC peerings, VPC Native DOKS clusters, or Private Network Connect…
DigitalOcean in the paper
- How to Safely Let AI Agents Call Production APIs using DigitalOcean Action Gateway
- Building a computer that can pause and resume in milliseconds: Inside the MicroVM architecture behind Managed Agents
- Inside Action Gateway in Managed Agents
- DigitalOcean Inference Router Enhancements: Performance Tuned Routing, No Rules to Write
- Introducing DigitalOcean Agent Data Services: The Data Foundation for Agents
- Introducing DigitalOcean Insights: Built-in Observability for Your Agents, Applications, and Infrastructure
- Introducing DigitalOcean Signals and Simulations: see how your agents and models really behave in production, then test the fix before it ships
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Fast, isolated compute for your AI agent infrastructure