Cloudflare outage on October 13, 2026: Network performance issues in Ashburn, US (IAD)

Cloudflare reported an incident affecting Cloudflare for 10 hours 56 minutes on 13 October 2026, from 04:00 to 14:56 UTC.

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Resolved

Official incident reported by Cloudflare

Started: 04:00; 13 Oct 2026 UTC
Resolved: 14:56; 13 Oct 2026 UTC
Duration: 10h 56m; 10 hours 56 minutes
Impact: Minor; as rated by Cloudflare
Updates: 8; posted by Cloudflare

Timeline

All times UTC.

Official incident from Cloudflare

Network performance issues in Ashburn, US (IAD)

Resolved Minor impact 13 Oct 2026 04:00 UTC View on Cloudflare's status page

04:00 Official
Investigating
Cloudflare is investigating issues with network performance in Ashburn, US (IAD). We are working to analyse and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly.
04:52 Official
Identified
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
04:52 Official
Identified
We are continuing to work on a fix for the issue.
05:00 Official
Monitoring
We have taken measures to address any impact and are closely monitoring the situation.
05:09 Official
Monitoring
We have identified the issue to be related to third-party circuit maintenance, have mitigated the impact that affected traffic, and customers should expect normal network behaviour and performance through the maintenance window. We will update when the maintenance is complete, expected at 10:00 GMT today (2026-10-13).
06:57 Official
Monitoring
Impact observed 06:33 - 06:41 UTC when we observe the vendor restoring the impacted capacity. We believe they temporarily affected all remaining capacity during the restoration and are following up with them. At this point all capacity has been restored and we are monitoring
10:42 Official
Monitoring
Vendor has updated to say that their maintenance window will be extended till 13:00 UTC. Customers should continue to expect normal network behaviour and performance through the maintenance window.
14:56 Official
Resolved
This incident has been resolved.

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