Internal Load Balancers Connectivity

lowDigitalOceanMar 5, 2026 00:23Duration: 1h 29m

networkdnscomputeauthenticationrouting

DNS FailureNetwork / RoutingCapacity IssueAuthentication Issue

Summary

From 19:57 UTC to 01:03 UTC, customers may have experienced connectivity issues between Internal Load Balancers and their associated target droplets, which could have resulted in service disruption or traffic routing failures. Our Engineering team has confirmed full resolution of the issue, and Internal Load Balancers should now be functioning normally. If you continue to experience any problems, please open a ticket with our Support team. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Impact

minor

Timeline

Mar 5, 2026 00:23

[investigating] Our Engineering team is investigating an issue affecting Internal Load Balancers. Customers may experience connectivity loss between Internal Load Balancers and their associated target droplets. We apologize for the inconvenience and will share an update as soon as more information becomes available.

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Mar 5, 2026 01:19

[monitoring] Our Engineering team has implemented mitigation measures to address the connectivity issues affecting Internal Load Balancers and their associated target droplets. We are actively monitoring the situation to ensure stability and to prevent any recurrence. We will provide a further update once we confirm the issue is fully resolved.

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Mar 5, 2026 01:52

[resolved] From 19:57 UTC to 01:03 UTC, customers may have experienced connectivity issues between Internal Load Balancers and their associated target droplets, which could have resulted in service disruption or traffic routing failures. Our Engineering team has confirmed full resolution of the issue, and Internal Load Balancers should now be functioning normally. If you continue to experience any problems, please open a ticket with our Support team. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

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Lessons Learned

⚠DigitalOcean has experienced 46 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to network, dns, compute, authentication, routing have occurred 96 times across all providers in the past year. This is one of the most common failure categories in cloud infrastructure.

💡This incident is categorized as: DNS Failure, Network / Routing, Capacity Issue, Authentication Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.