Overview
The DigitalOcean Status API provides real-time and historical data on the operational status of all DigitalOcean services, including Droplets, Managed Databases, Kubernetes, Spaces, and more. You can query current component health, active incidents, scheduled maintenance windows, and past incidents — all without authentication. It is built on the Statuspage.io platform and returns predictable JSON.
Beginner Tip
This is one of the easiest APIs to start with — no sign-up, no API key, and the responses are clean JSON. Use it to build a simple dashboard that alerts your team when DigitalOcean has an outage. The base URL is https://status.digitalocean.com/api/v2.
Measurement Record
What actually happened when we called this API from our own infrastructure. Every value below was recorded by the request, not copied from the provider's documentation.
- Request
- GET https://status.digitalocean.com/api/v2/summary.json
- Result
- HTTP 200 · application/json · 83,837 bytes · compressed
- Response time
- 13127 ms
- Transport
- TLSv1.3 · TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 · certificate issued by Google Trust Services
- Browser CORS
- Allowed — Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
- Served by
- cloudflare
- Recorded
- 2026-08-10
Fields Returned
Top-level fields present in the response we captured, with the type and value we actually received.
| Field | Type | Value received |
|---|---|---|
| page | object | {5 fields} |
| components | array | [1 item] |
| incidents | array | [0 items] |
| scheduled_maintenances | array | [0 items] |
| status | object | {2 fields} |
Captured Response
Captured from a real request to https://status.digitalocean.com/api/v2/summary.json on 2026-08-10. Long arrays and nested objects are truncated to keep the shape readable.
{
"page": {
"id": "w4cz49tckxhp",
"name": "DigitalOcean",
"url": "http://status.digitalocean.com",
"time_zone": "Etc/UTC",
"updated_at": "2026-08-10T00:41:51.867Z"
},
"components": [
{
"id": "p1x9rv4137gx",
"name": "API",
"status": "operational",
"created_at": "2023-03-06T18:42:45.160Z",
"updated_at": "2026-05-08T19:59:48.833Z",
"position": 1,
"description": null,
"showcase": false,
"start_date": "2023-03-06",
"group_id": null,
"page_id": "w4cz49tckxhp",
"group": false,
"only_show_if_degraded": false
}
],
"incidents": [],
"scheduled_maintenances": [],
"status": {
"indicator": "none",
"description": "All Systems Operational"
}
} Field Reference
components List of individual DigitalOcean services (Droplets, DNS, etc.) with their own status indicators. incidents Active incidents affecting one or more components, including impact level and timestamps. scheduled_maintenances Upcoming planned maintenance windows that may affect service availability. Implementation Example
Calls a real endpoint of this API. Replace any placeholder credentials with your own key.
const url = "https://status.digitalocean.com/api/v2/summary.json";
const response = await fetch(url);
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data); What Can You Build?
Note: These code examples are AI-generated and unverified. Always refer to the official API documentation for accurate usage.
How This API Fails
We deliberately sent this API a broken request and recorded exactly what came back on 2026-08-10. Knowing the shape of an error before you hit it makes error handling much easier to write.
Returned an HTML error page rather than JSON — worth knowing if your client assumes every response can be parsed as JSON.
Common Errors & Troubleshooting
Generated guidance based on this API's documentation, not observed by us. Treat it as a starting point and check against the provider's own error reference.
Measured Score Breakdown
Live HTTP request to the API endpoint
Fully tested on Aug 10, 2026
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