DigitalOcean Status API

Beginner's Pick Development / No Auth Required Beginner HTTPS
Free to Use
49 D
Measured Score 0 50 100 Speed 0/30 Consistency 6/20 Security 20/20 Browser access 15/15 Transparency 8/15 TESTED 2026-08-10

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.

JSON Response · Captured
{
  "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.

Request
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.

HTTP 404 Requesting a path that does not exist unknown

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.

Empty incidents array despite known outage The incident may have been resolved and moved to the incident history endpoint
Query /incidents.json for active incidents and /incidents/unresolved.json to confirm nothing is ongoing.
Component status shows operational but service is slow Minor degradations may not yet be reflected or may fall below the incident threshold
Also poll /components.json and watch for degraded_performance status values in addition to major_outage.
CORS error in browser Some ad-blockers or browser extensions block status-page domains even though the API supports CORS
Fetch from a backend server or check browser extensions; the API itself supports CORS by default.

Measured Score Breakdown

Live HTTP request to the API endpoint

Speed 0/30
Consistency 6/20
Security 20/20
Browser access 15/15
Transparency 8/15
Endpoint Response Time 13127ms

Fully tested on Aug 10, 2026

Technical Specifications

Auth No Auth
HTTPS REQUIRED
CORS UNKNOWN
Category Development
Difficulty Beginner
Endpoint last called: 2026-08-10

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