If you store objects in Linode's US-Southeast (Atlanta) region, you may have seen connection timeouts and errors starting at 16:01 UTC. Linode says it corrected the issue by 16:59 UTC, and the fault sits entirely on its side.
Started
16:01 UTC
Duration
Ongoing
Source
IsDown
Next time
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What happened?
Linode opened an incident at 16:01 UTC for "Service Issue - Object Storage - US-Southeast (Atlanta)". The initial update said users might see connection timeouts and errors with the Object Storage service in that region. At 16:59 UTC, Linode posted that the issue had been corrected and that it would keep monitoring for stability, while inviting anyone still having trouble to open a support ticket. No components list was published alongside this incident, so there is no breakdown of which parts of Object Storage were touched beyond the general description. No user reports were filed during this window, so there is no independent account of what the errors looked like from outside Linode. The whole record for this incident is two updates from Linode itself, an hour apart, and nothing more has been filed since. That single monitoring update is the only word on the fix, there is no follow-up confirming the service stayed stable afterward. Linode's status page does not say what caused the timeouts or errors in the first place. For context, Linode has logged 21 incidents in the past 90 days with a median duration of 3 hours 60 minutes, and 585 incidents all-time at a rate of about 7.6 a month, so issues of this kind are not rare on this provider.
Learning
Over the last 30 days, UptimeRobot's own checks against Linode recorded 6 incidents, with only 4 resolved and a median duration of 5h 10m, figures that come from watching Linode's endpoints directly rather than from Linode's own status page. An Object Storage fault like this one lives on the provider's side, in the region's storage layer, which means your own uptime checks on your application can stay green the whole time if your product routes around that region or degrades gracefully, while the underlying storage calls are still timing out. That is not a contradiction, both readings can be true at once: your endpoint responds, but a specific dependency inside it is broken. This is the general shape of a storage or infrastructure outage, your product's front door looks fine while a back-end call quietly fails or degrades. Watching only your own domain would have told you nothing was wrong until support tickets started arriving. Your monitoring covers your half, UptimeRobot now watches the provider's half too, so next time you know which side broke without guessing.
