Akamai Linode outage, September 2026: Service Issue - Cloud Manager and API

Akamai Linode reported and resolved an incident: Service Issue - Cloud Manager and API. It lasted 1.2 hours.

Resolved

From Akamai Linode's official status page, in their words.

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
1.2 hours
Impact
minor
Affected
Cloud Manager and API
  1. Investigating
  2. Identifiednot posted
  3. Monitoringnot posted
  4. 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.

Akamai Linode's closing update

This incident on the Akamai Linode status page

Timeline

Oldest first, from the first notice to the resolution. From Akamai Linode's official status page, in their words.

  1. investigating

    Our team is investigating a service issue that affects the Cloud Manager (https://cloud.linode.com/) and API. During that time, some users may experience issues when attempting to access these systems. We will share additional updates as we have more information.

  2. 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 1.2 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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