# DigitalOcean: Major incident: Kubernetes Cluster Management Operations

> Major incident: Kubernetes Cluster Management Operations. Detected 2026-10-27 by Rewindex: what changed on DigitalOcean’s status page, with the before/after diff.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/change/i9f11476a30cb0e
Last updated: 2026-10-27T22:24:04Z

**Summary:** _summary pending_
- Kind: Major incident · Label: major (vendor)
- Changed: 2026-10-27 22:14 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-27 22:24 UTC
- [Source: https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/ckmpdk5z9xj9](https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/ckmpdk5z9xj9)
- [Company: DigitalOcean](https://rewindex.com/company/digitalocean.md)
- Versions: before (none: first archived) → after incident\_version:83/ckmpdk5z9xj9@48e6f54b8889
- Change 1 of 5 for this incident

Incident page (full timeline): [Kubernetes Cluster Management Operations](https://rewindex.com/company/digitalocean/incidents/ckmpdk5z9xj9.md)
## What changed

**1. Added: Title**

```diff
+ Kubernetes Cluster Management Operations
```

**2. Added: Impact**

```diff
+ minor
```

**3. Added: Status**

```diff
+ investigating
```

**4. Added: Start time**

```diff
+ 2026-10-27 22:14 UTC
```

**5. Added: Affected components**

```diff
+ Global, Kubernetes - Global
```

**6. Added: Update** (investigating) · 2026-10-27 22:14 UTC

```diff
+ Our Engineering team is currently investigating an issue affecting Managed Kubernetes cluster operations. During this time, Customers may experience delays or failures when attempting to create, delete, scale, or upgrade clusters, as well as with other management tasks. Existing workloads running on Managed Kubernetes are not affected and will continue to operate normally. Our Engineering team is actively investigating and treating this with the highest priority. We will provide another update as soon as more information becomes available.
```

## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-10-27 22:14 UTC | Major incident: Kubernetes Cluster Management Operations (this change) | major |
| 2026-10-27 23:24 UTC | [Incident silently edited: Kubernetes Cluster Management Operations](https://rewindex.com/change/rc8ed0d78c50f42.md) |  |
| 2026-10-28 00:04 UTC | [Incident updated: Kubernetes Cluster Management Operations](https://rewindex.com/change/r290b035380d053.md) |  |
| 2026-10-28 01:43 UTC | [Incident updated: Kubernetes Cluster Management Operations](https://rewindex.com/change/r348a37e1378864.md) |  |
| 2026-10-28 02:03 UTC | [Incident updated: Kubernetes Cluster Management Operations](https://rewindex.com/change/r95ba9eb53f9278.md) |  |

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