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Incident history
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Scheduled Longview Maintenance - US-Central (Dallas)
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.
Scheduled Longview Maintenance - US-Central (Dallas)
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.
Scheduled Longview Maintenance - US-Central (Dallas)
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.
Service Issue - US-Southeast (Atlanta)
We are continuing to investigate the issue. We will share additional details as soon as we have them.
Scheduled Longview Maintenance - US-Central (Dallas)
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.
Customer Security Advisory: CVE-2026-98432
We are in the process of deploying mitigations for the underlying known attack vector while we continue to analyze any other possible impact. Customers are strongly advised to apply OS updates from their upstream provider to their workloads as soon as those become available. At this time, we have no evidence of this vulnerability being exploited on the Akamai Compute platform.
Scheduled Longview Maintenance - US-Central (Dallas)
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.
Scheduled Longview Maintenance - US-Central (Dallas)
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.
Service Issue - Block Storage (BR-GRU)
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
Scheduled Longview Maintenance - US-Central (Dallas)
Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Scheduled Maintenance for Linode Cloud Manager, API, CLI
The Linode Cloud Manager, API, and CLI will be offline for scheduled maintenance between 04:00 UTC and 05:30 UTC on October 28, 2026. During this window, running Linodes and related services will not be disrupted, but account management access and Support tickets will be unavailable. Please ensure that you complete critical or important jobs in the Cloud Manager or API before the maintenance wind
Scheduled Longview Maintenance - US-Central (Dallas)
Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Connectivity Issue between ID-CGK (Jakarta) and SG-SIN-2 (Singapore 2)
We will continue to monitor to ensure that the impact has been fully mitigated. Further updates will be provided as we make progress.
Connectivity Issue - Dallas Data Center (IPv6 Traffic to Google)
This was identified to be an upstream issue and should be resolved at this time, we will continue to monitor to ensure things remain stable.
Customer Security Advisory: Critical F5/NGINX Out-of-Band Vulnerabilities
Akamai is aware of the recently published F5/NGINX vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-15176, CVE-2026-97205, and CVE-2026-93479), and our teams are actively investigating their potential impact across our platform and infrastructure. F5 has released out-of-band security patches addressing three critical severity vulnerabilities in NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus. These vulnerabilities may allow unauthent
Customer Security Advisory: PHP Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Akamai is aware of the recently published (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) vulnerabilities and our teams are actively investigating its potential impact across our platform and infrastructure. As a part of ongoing mitigation efforts, our Cloud Infrastructure Speed Tests will be unavailable. If you are running a vulnerable version of PHP on a Linode instance, we recommend following guidance
Issue in creating new LKE Enterprise cluster across regions.
Our team has identified the issue affecting the LKE Enterprise service. We are working quickly to implement a fix, and we will provide an update as soon as the solution is in place.
(PwnEscape) Guest-to-Host KVM Escape [CVE-2026-99999]
Akamai has completed patching Compute hypervisors for the known vulnerabilities related to CVE-2026-99999, also referred to as “PwnEscape”, and we have not identified any exploitation on the Akamai platform. We recommend that customers upgrade Linode guest VMs using kernels from upstream OS vendors as those become available, especially for cases where less trusted workloads are being run within c
Maintenance - Akamai Cloud Login Service
We are performing maintenance on the Akamai Cloud Login service. During this maintenance, new customer signup and account creation are temporarily disabled. Existing customers accounts are not affected and will be able to log in normally.
Service Issue - Cloud Manager and API
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 <a href="https://cloud.linode.com/support/tickets">open a Support ticket</a>, call us at 855-454-6633 (+1-609-380-7100 Intl.), or send an email to support@li
Managed Database - RBAC Release
On Wednesday, October 7th, from 11:00 to 14:00 UTC, we will be enabling our Database as a Service RBAC release. This release will enable role-based access control, as well as improve user and role management functionality and authorization. During this window, <strong>users should not make any role or permission changes until the maintenance window is complete.</strong>. There is no expected serv
Network Maintenance - US-MIA
We will be performing a network maintenance in our US-MIA (Miami) data center from 09:00 (UTC) until 13:00 (UTC) on Wednesday, October 7th. While we do not expect any downtime, a brief period of increased latency or packet loss may occur. If you have questions surrounding this Scheduled Maintenance, please <a href="https://cloud.linode.com/support/tickets?type=closed&drawerOpen=true">open a Suppor
Scheduled Maintenance for Linode Cloud Manager, API, CLI
The Linode Cloud Manager, API, and CLI will be offline for scheduled maintenance between 04:00 UTC and 06:00 UTC on September 16, 2026. During this window, running Linodes and related services will not be disrupted, but account management access and Support tickets will be unavailable. Please ensure that you complete critical or important jobs in the Cloud Manager or API before the maintenance wi
Emergency Power Maintenance - US-ORD (Chicago)
Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Service Issue - GPU and VPU Booting issues
We are currently deploying a fix for this issue in phases, which will take several months to complete. We will continue to share updates on our progress as the mitigation efforts move forward.
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Is Akamai Linode down right now?
As of the last check (2026-10-31 23:36 UTC), Akamai Linode reports “Degraded performance” on its official status page. 25 ongoing incidents, latest: Scheduled Longview Maintenance - US-Central (Dallas).
What is Akamai Linode's uptime over the last 90 days?
Akamai Linode shows 100.00% uptime over the last 90 days, across 23 published incidents.
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