Cloudflare outage history

Biggest Cloudflare outages

Ranked by the official impact level, then by how long they lasted. Each has its own page with the cause, the fix time and every official update.

1. Oct 20, 2026: Cloudflare Zero Trust connectivity 3 hours 12 min · rated "Critical"
2. Oct 7, 2026: Network Performance Issues in Columbus 9 hours 3 min · rated "Major"
3. Oct 21, 2026: Elevated Errors for R2 and Durable Objects in ENAM 2 hours 7 min · rated "Major"
4. Oct 16, 2026: Cloudflare Fedramp Dashboard and Access 1 hour 13 min · rated "Major"

Every smaller Cloudflare incident

Minor and short incidents from the Cloudflare status page, newest first, each with a line from the official updates. Times are UTC.

October 2026

• Oct 22, 2026, 00:23 UTC · Network congestion in Portland and Seattle, US

  1 hour 46 min · rated "Minor"

  "Cloudflare is experiencing network congestion in Portland and Seattle, US. We are working to mitigate impact to Internet users in this region."

• Oct 21, 2026, 23:50 UTC · Elevated Error Rate for Durable Objects in Lisbon

  45 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "We are currently investigating an issue where we are observing higher than usual error rates for Durable Objects in our Lisbon (LIS) facility."

• Oct 21, 2026, 16:42 UTC · Increased Latency in India

  3 hours 15 min · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating reports of increased latency affecting some traffic in India. Affected users may experience slower loading times."

• Oct 20, 2026, 19:35 UTC · Issue with Bot management traffic categorization for verified bots

  41 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "Cloudflare is investigating issues with our Bot Management feature. Customers may observe a limited number of verified bots incorrectly identified as automated traffic"

• Oct 19, 2026, 20:30 UTC · Cloudflare Secure Web Gateway and DLP enforcement issues for Google Gemini

  26 hours 17 min · rated "Minor"

  "We are rolling out a fix to restore Secure Web Gateway application controls for Google Gemini. Work continues to restore DLP prompt logging and enforcement."

• Oct 19, 2026, 11:28 UTC · DNS Update Delays

  23 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "We are continuing to work on a fix for the issue."

• Oct 18, 2026, 08:00 UTC · Network Performance Issues in Virginia and Ohio United States

  50 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "Due to unexpected prefix withdrawals on peering links in IAD and CMH (Ashburn, Virginia and Columbus, Ohio, in the United States) on an external provider, customers experienced increased latency and timeouts from 08:00 to 08:50 UTC."

• Oct 16, 2026, 12:58 UTC · Increased HTTP 5xx Errors Ashburn

  5 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "Between 12:58 and 13:03 UTC, Cloudflare experienced an elevated rate of HTTP 5xx errors in Ashburn (IAD). The incident is now resolved, and systems are fully operational."

• Oct 16, 2026, 10:15 UTC · Cloudflare Dashboard sign up issues

  1 hour 9 min · rated "Minor"

  "We are continuing to work on a fix for the issue."

• Oct 16, 2026, 09:20 UTC · Cloudflare Access Availability Issues

  38 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."

• Oct 16, 2026, 06:48 UTC · Network Performance Issues in Thailand

  42 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "Cloudflare investigated and resolved issues with network performance in Bangkok, Thailand. There may have been elevated response times and an increase in 5xx errors between 06:48 and 07:30 UTC."

• Oct 16, 2026, 01:13 UTC · Network issues in Incheon (ICN)

  58 minutes · marked as no impact

  "Between 01:13 AM and 02:11 AM UTC, network performance at our ICN-A colo in Seoul was impacted."

• Oct 16, 2026, 00:01 UTC · Workers Cron Triggers issues

  1 hour 5 min · rated "Minor"

  "Workers Cron Triggers have stabilized"

• Oct 15, 2026, 20:48 UTC · Network Performance Issues in Eastern North America

  50 minutes · rated "Major"

  "Cloudflare has identified an issue with network performance affecting our Ashburn (IAD) and Newark (EWR) facilities. Customers may observed elevated latency and/or errors for traffic handled by these facilities until the issue is resolved."

• Oct 15, 2026, 17:33 UTC · Network Performance Issues in London

  13 minutes · rated "Major"

  "We are working to mitigate impact to Internet users in this region. Cloudflare has identified the issue and is implementing a fix."

• Oct 15, 2026, 16:42 UTC · Pages.dev sites experiencing availability issues in Norway

  4 hours 44 min · rated "Minor"

  "We are continuing to work on a fix for the issue."

• Oct 15, 2026, 16:05 UTC · Network Performance Issues in Kuala Lumpur

  5 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "Cloudflare resolved an incident where we observed network performance issues in our Kuala Lumpur (KUL) facility."

• Oct 15, 2026, 15:37 UTC · Increased Errors for Durable Objects

  2 hours 23 min · rated "Minor"

  "The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."

• Oct 15, 2026, 15:33 UTC · DNS Update Delays

  2 hours 46 min · rated "Minor"

  "The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."

• Oct 15, 2026, 10:47 UTC · Increased HTTP 502 Errors

  9 hours 52 min · rated "Minor"

  "We are continuing to work on a fix for the issue."

• Oct 15, 2026, 09:18 UTC · Increased Errors for Durable Objects and Downstream Services in Western Europe

  44 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "Cloudflare is investigating issues causing an increase of errors for Durable Objects and downstream services in Western Europe from 09:00 UTC. This is currently recovering. More updates to follow shortly."

• Oct 15, 2026, 07:10 UTC · Cloudflare Workers AI Issues

  2 hours 26 min · rated "Minor"

  "Cloudflare has identified an issue whereby customers might experience errors from inference requests to certain models using Workers AI."

• Oct 15, 2026, 05:57 UTC · Degraded performance for Cloudflare Browser Run

  49 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "We are continuing to work on a fix for the issue."

• Oct 14, 2026, 07:43 UTC · Increased HTTP Errors in London (LHR)

  8 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "Cloudflare is aware of, and has resolved, an increased level of HTTP errors in London (LHR), between 07:43 UTC and 07:51 UTC. Services have resumed normal operation after this time."

• Oct 14, 2026, 05:36 UTC · Cloudflare Workers - Cron Trigger Activation Issues

  19 hours 53 min · rated "Minor"

  "Workers Cron Trigger backlogs have cleared and appear healthy. Cron Trigger schedules should be executing as expected. Some schedule redeploys may be required for a small fraction of Workers who were impacted during the incident."

• Oct 14, 2026, 04:55 UTC · Elevated errors in Los Angeles (LAX)

  25 minutes · marked as no impact

  "Customers reaching Los Angeles (LAX) colo may have seen an elevate number of errors during the time. The problem has been mitigated, and we are currently monitoring."

• Oct 14, 2026, 04:40 UTC · Elevated number of 5XX errors in PDX

  2 hours 5 min · marked as no impact

  "Mitigations have been put in place to prevent recurrence."

• Oct 14, 2026, 03:48 UTC · OBS API availability

  24 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "For about 30 minutes there was reduced availability for customers using the OBS API. This has been identified, and we are back to normal for now."

• Oct 14, 2026, 03:02 UTC · Possible Network Congestion in Dallas, TX, United States (DFW)

  28 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "Cloudflare observed possible network congestion in Dallas, TX, United States (DFW) between 14th October 03:02-03:30 UTC. The issue has fully resolved, and we are monitoring for stability."

• Oct 13, 2026, 20:37 UTC · Network Performance Issues in LAX

  2 hours 7 min · rated "Minor"

  "Cloudflare is investigating issues with network performance in LAX. We are working to analyse and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly."

• Oct 13, 2026, 16:39 UTC · Cloudflare Service Issues

  28 minutes · rated "Major"

  "Cloudflare saw issues with network performance in IAD that resulted in an increase in errors across Cloudflare services. Users may have experienced increases errors or timeouts reaching Cloudflare's network or services."

• Oct 13, 2026, 15:18 UTC · Cloudflare Workers - Cron Trigger Activation Issues

  8 hours 51 min · rated "Minor"

  "The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."

• Oct 13, 2026, 10:14 UTC · Audit Logs v2 ingestion is missing multiple Cloudflare products

  2 days 14 hours · rated "Minor"

  "Since 2026-10-12 at 16:57:24 UTC, audit logs from multiple Cloudflare products are not ingested into the audit logs v2 database anymore. V1 audit logs are not affected"

• Oct 13, 2026, 04:00 UTC · Network performance issues in Ashburn, US (IAD)

  10 hours 56 min · rated "Minor"

  "We are continuing to work on a fix for the issue."

• Oct 12, 2026, 19:09 UTC · Cloudflare Workers - Cron Trigger Activation Issues

  3 hours 11 min · rated "Minor"

  "Cloudflare is investigating issues with Workers Cron Triggers. Customers who have recently created or modified a Cron Trigger schedule may find that the schedule is not executing as expected."

• Oct 12, 2026, 16:22 UTC · Cloudflare Network Performance Issues

  7 hours 28 min · rated "Minor"

  "We are continuing to work on a fix for the issue."

• Oct 12, 2026, 13:32 UTC · Cloudflare Workers API

  33 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "Cloudflare is investigating 504s errors when interacting with Workers API and Workers configuration in the dashboard. Customers might experience some unavailability on Workers endpoints, particularly when deploying a script."

• Oct 12, 2026, 12:54 UTC · Network Performance Issues in Seattle

  8 hours 12 min · rated "Minor"

  "Between 12:54 and 21:06 UTC on October 12, 2026, Cloudflare experienced an issue that affected network performance in Seattle. During this time, customers may have experienced degraded network performance. This incident has been resolved."

• Oct 12, 2026, 08:52 UTC · Elevated errors in Los Angeles (LAX)

  32 hours 48 min · rated "Minor"

  "We are continuing to work on a fix for the issue."

• Oct 10, 2026, 04:13 UTC · Elevated Errors in China Network Colos

  5 days 5 hours · rated "Minor"

  "We have identified that increased latency and 5xx errors affecting certain China Network colos are caused by cross-border routing instability in the China network."

• Oct 9, 2026, 18:52 UTC · Cloudflare API service issues

  7 hours 19 min · rated "Minor"

  "The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."

• Oct 9, 2026, 18:50 UTC · Network Performance Issues in Queretaro

  20 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "Cloudflare is investigating issues with Network Performance in our Queretaro (QRO) facility. We are working to analyze and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly."

• Oct 9, 2026, 14:41 UTC · Cloudflare DNS Resolver 1.1.1.1 and Gateway DNS are having issues in SIN

  4 hours 49 min · rated "Minor"

  "Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating, an issue which potentially impacts multiple users in Singapore that use the 1.1.1.1 public resolver or Gateway DNS. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available."

• Oct 8, 2026, 21:35 UTC · Network Performance Issues in Sofia

  57 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "Cloudflare resolved an issue with network performance for our Sofia (SOF) facility which occurred today, 2026-10-08, from approximately 21:35 to 21:50 UTC."

• Oct 8, 2026, 14:00 UTC · Network Performance Issues in Kochi

  duration not stated · marked as no impact

  "Cloudflare resolved an issue with network performance for our Kochi (COK) facility which occurred today, 2026-10-08, between approximately 14:00 and 17:00 UTC."

• Oct 8, 2026, 14:00 UTC · Network Performance Issues in Kochi

  3 hours · rated "Minor"

  "Cloudflare resolved an issue with network performance for our Kochi (COK) facility which occurred today, 2026-10-08, between approximately 14:00 and 17:00 UTC."

• Oct 7, 2026, 14:41 UTC · Cloudflare API service issues

  44 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "Cloudflare is investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard APIs. These issues do not affect the serving of cached files via the Cloudflare CDN or other security features at the Cloudflare Edge."

• Oct 6, 2026, 13:34 UTC · Network routing issue

  1 hour 59 min · rated "Minor"

  "We are continuing to work on a fix for the issue."

• Oct 6, 2026, 08:22 UTC · RSA Keyless SSL handshake issues

  44 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "Cloudflare is aware of and is investigating an issue with Keyless SSL, which results in TLS handshake failures, only affecting RSA Keyless SSL with specific key backend configurations. We are working to resolve this. Updates to follow."

• Oct 5, 2026, 17:14 UTC · Durable Objects Availability Issue in Eastern North America

  5 hours 21 min · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating an issue leading to decreased availability for Durable Objects and dependent services in the Eastern North America region."

• Oct 5, 2026, 10:55 UTC · API Shield JWT Validation Errors

  11 hours 44 min · rated "Minor"

  "The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."

• Oct 5, 2026, 09:30 UTC · Increase in Latency Across Multiple Locations

  duration not stated · rated "Minor"

  "Cloudflare investigated reports of increased latency affecting requests for cacheable assets across multiple locations between 09:30 and 11:10 UTC. The issue is now resolved."

• Oct 3, 2026, 05:54 UTC · Issues with Workers Build failing to start

  2 days 2 hours · rated "Minor"

  "Cloudflare is aware of and investigating an issue with Cloudflare Workers build failing to start. We are working to analyse and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly."

• Oct 2, 2026, 22:33 UTC · Network Performance Issues - Seoul (ICN)

  duration not stated · marked as no impact

  "Between 17:11 and 17:22 UTC, Cloudflare experienced network performance degradation impacting Seoul, South Korea (ICN). The issue has been identified and fully mitigated, and network performance has returned to normal levels."

• Oct 2, 2026, 21:46 UTC · Cloudflare CDN experiencing increase in errors.

  11 minutes · rated "Critical"

  "Cloudflare is investigating an increase in errors for CDN configuration changes and purge calls specifically issued from the dashboard. Purges sent via API were unaffected."

September 2026

• Sep 30, 2026, 10:31 UTC · Network Performance Issues in Madrid

  43 hours 11 min · rated "Minor"

  "The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."

• Sep 22, 2026, 19:23 UTC · Cloudflare One Clients are incorrectly challenged on some sites

  21 days 22 hours · rated "Minor"

  "The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."

• Sep 11, 2026, 00:00 UTC · Hyperdrive Degraded Performance

  24 days · marked as no impact

  "Cloudflare identified an issue that affected Hyperdrive performance between 11th September and 5th October 2026. During this time, customers may have experienced elevated latency. This incident has been resolved."