Akamai Linode outage, September 2026: Emerging Service Issue - Cloud Manager and API
Akamai Linode reported and resolved an incident: Emerging Service Issue - Cloud Manager and API. It lasted 34.2 hours.
OKResolved
From Akamai Linode's official status page, in their words.
What happened
- Started
- Resolved
- Duration
- 34.2 hours
- Impact
- minor
- Affected
- US-East (Newark), Cloud Manager and API, US-Central (Dallas), US-West (Fremont), US-Southeast (Atlanta), US-IAD (Washington), US-ORD (Chicago), CA-Central (Toronto), EU-West (London), EU-Central (Frankfurt), FR-PAR (Paris), AP-South (Singapore)
- Investigating
- Identifiednot posted
- Monitoringnot posted
- 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 or API, and will now consider this incident resolved. If you continue to experience issues, 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.
- investigating
Our team is investigating an emerging service issue intermittently affecting Cloud Manager and API. We will share additional updates as we have more information.
- resolved
We haven't observed any additional issues with the Cloud Manager or API, and will now consider this incident resolved. If you continue to experience issues, 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 34.2 hours.
- 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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- Connectivity Issue - IN-MAA and IN-BOM-2, resolved after 3.2 hours
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- Customer Security Advisory: CVE-2026-98432, open, investigating
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