# DigitalOcean: Control Panel Access

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2025-12-05 09:23 UTC · Resolved: 2025-12-05 10:06 UTC · Duration: 43 min
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/528ghwz6806b](https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/528ghwz6806b)
- [Company: DigitalOcean](https://rewindex.com/company/digitalocean.md)

## Part of an outage event

- [Cloudflare outage, Dec 5, 2025: 46 vendors, 46 incidents](https://rewindex.com/events/2025-12-05-cloudflare)
- This incident started in the same window without naming Cloudflare (timing only, not evidence of a link). (timing only, posted +36 min vs the first vendor naming Cloudflare)

```mermaid
flowchart LR
  root["Cloudflare<br/>own incident not archived"]:::inferred
  h1["Within an hour<br/>18 vendors, 18 blamed Cloudflare<br/>Unbounce, Expo, GitLab +15"]:::blames
  root --> h1
  h4["1 to 4 hours later<br/>1 vendor, 1 blamed Cloudflare<br/>Klaviyo"]:::blames
  root --> h4
  later["Later<br/>2 vendors, 2 blamed Cloudflare<br/>Bitrise, Sigma Computing"]:::blames
  root --> later
  me["DigitalOcean (this incident)<br/>posted +36 min"]:::me
  root -.->|"same window"| me
```

_Detected automatically from incidents that started together and named the same provider; a link means one incident named another vendor, not a confirmed cause._

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2025-12-05 10:06 UTC: Our Engineering team has confirmed the full resolution of this issue. From approximately 08:51 UTC – 09:12 UTC, users may have experienced difficulties signing in or accessing resources through the Control Panel and API due to an upstream provider issue. The upstream provider has fixed the issue, and all services are now functioning normally. If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team. Thank you for your patience and we apologize for any inconvenience.

_From the vendor’s published history: only the final update text is available for incidents before Rewindex began polling this page._


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