Akamai Linode outage, October 2026: Service Issue - Cloud Manager and API
Akamai Linode reported and resolved an incident: Service Issue - Cloud Manager and API. It lasted 4 days.
OKResolved
From Akamai Linode's official status page, in their words.
What happened
- Started
- Resolved
- Duration
- 4 days
- Impact
- minor
- Affected
- Cloud Manager and API
- Investigating
- Identified
- Monitoring
- Resolved
Why it happened
Akamai Linode has not given a cause in its updates. We never guess one.
How it was resolved
We haven't observed any additional issues with the Cloud Manager logins, and will now consider this incident resolved. If you continue to experience issues receiving verification codes, please contact us at 855-454-6633 (+1-609-380-7100 Intl.), or send an email to support@linode.com for assistance.
Timeline
Oldest first, from the first notice to the resolution. From Akamai Linode's official status page, in their words.
- identified
Our team has identified the issue affecting Cloud Manager logins, where customers may not receive verification codes in some scenarios. We are working quickly to implement a fix and will provide an update as soon as the solution is in place.
- monitoring
At this time we have been able to correct the issue affecting the Cloud Manager logins. We will be monitoring this to ensure that the service remains stable. If you are still experiencing issues and unable to receive verification codes please open a Support ticket, call us at 855-454-6633 (+1-609-380-7100 Intl.), or send an email to support@linode.com.
- resolved
We haven't observed any additional issues with the Cloud Manager logins, and will now consider this incident resolved. If you continue to experience issues receiving verification codes, please contact us at 855-454-6633 (+1-609-380-7100 Intl.), or send an email to support@linode.com for assistance.
What this means for a business (and what to check now)
- Retry anything that failed during the 4 days.
- Enter any payments, bookings or jobs you took another way.
- If a deadline fell inside the window, keep this page as your record of the outage.
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