Cloudflare outage on October 21, 2026: Increased Latency in India
Cloudflare reported an incident affecting Cloudflare for 3 hours 15 minutes on 21 October 2026, from 16:42 to 19:57 UTC.
Resolved
Official incident reported by Cloudflare
- Started
- 16:42
- 21 Oct 2026 UTC
- Resolved
- 19:57
- 21 Oct 2026 UTC
- Duration
- 3h 15m
- 3 hours 15 minutes
- Impact
- Minor
- as rated by Cloudflare
- Updates
- 3
- posted by Cloudflare
Timeline
All times UTC.
Official incident from Cloudflare
Increased Latency in India
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Official
Investigating
We are investigating reports of increased latency affecting some traffic in India. Affected users may experience slower loading times. Our engineering teams are investigating, and we will provide an update as more information becomes available.
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Official
Monitoring
We have identified and implemented a fix for this issue and are currently monitoring the results.
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Official
Resolved
This incident has been resolved.
"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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