Cloudflare outage on October 27, 2026: ERR_TIMED_OUT and ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE being observed by Cloudflare Customers
Cloudflare has reported an incident affecting Cloudflare since 12:28 UTC on 27 October 2026 (1 hour 40 minutes so far).
Open
Official incident reported by Cloudflare
- Started
- 12:28
- 27 Oct 2026 UTC
- Status
- Open
- not resolved yet
- Duration
- 1h 40m
- 1 hour 40 minutes so far
- Impact
- Minor
- as rated by Cloudflare
- Updates
- 2
- posted by Cloudflare
Timeline
All times UTC.
Official incident from Cloudflare
ERR_TIMED_OUT and ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE being observed by Cloudflare Customers
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Official
Identified
Cloudflare has identified a third-party issue affecting customers whose traffic passes through external vendor firewalls after recent firmware upgrades. Customers may observe: ERR_TIMED_OUT on standard HTTPS websites ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE on non-standard HTTPS ports (e.g., 8443) Cloudflare's network and edge are functioning normally — these failures occur at the firewall inspection layer and can only be resolved with actions on the 3rd party software configuration.
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Official
Identified
Cloudflare has identified a third-party issue affecting customers whose traffic passes through external vendor firewalls after recent firmware upgrades. Customers may observe: ERR_TIMED_OUT on standard HTTPS websites ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE on non-standard HTTPS ports (e.g., 8443) Cloudflare's network and edge are functioning normally — these failures occur at the firewall inspection layer and can only be resolved with actions on the 3rd party software configuration.
"Official" rows are quoted from Cloudflare's public status page, www.cloudflarestatus.com. Very long posts are shortened.
What our checkpoints saw
HostTracker's checkpoints, which test cloudflare.com from several locations, recorded no outage of 5 minutes or longer during this incident. A provider can report a problem that affects only some features, regions or accounts, which a check of the main address does not see. The live Cloudflare status shows what our checks see right now.
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