Akamai Linode maintenance, October 2026: Scheduled Longview Maintenance - US-Central (Dallas)
Akamai Linode is reporting planned maintenance: Scheduled Longview Maintenance - US-Central (Dallas). It is still open.
OKWorking normally
From Akamai Linode's official status page, in their words.
What happened
- Started
- Status
- in progress
- Duration
- 10 days so far
- Impact
- maintenance
- Affected
- Longview
- Window
- 31 Oct 2026, 4:30 pm to 31 Oct 2026, 10:30 pm
Why it happened
Akamai Linode has not given a cause yet. We never guess one.
Timeline
Newest first. From Akamai Linode's official status page, in their words.
- in progress
Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
- scheduled
Maintenance will begin as scheduled in 60 minutes.
- scheduled
As part of addressing security vulnerabilities, we will be upgrading Longview servers in Dallas region. Existing graphs will remain available, but graph updates may be slightly delayed during individual server upgrades. The Maintenance period is expected to be from October 27 through November 3, 2026, with activities scheduled between 5:30 AM and 11:30 AM UTC.
What this means for a business
- Check whether your own website is affected before telling customers.
- Do not restart or rebuild servers to fix a provider outage; it will not help.
- Keep the status page open; providers post updates every 15 to 30 minutes during an incident.
The full guide: what to do when a service you rely on is down
Other Akamai Linode incidents
- Connectivity Issue - FR-PAR-2 (Paris 2), resolved after 2.8 hours
- Connectivity Issue - IN-MAA and IN-BOM-2, resolved after 3.2 hours
- Service Issue - US-Southeast (Atlanta), open, investigating
- Customer Security Advisory: CVE-2026-98432, open, investigating
- Service Issue - Block Storage (BR-GRU), open, monitoring
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