Cloudflare outage on October 18, 2026: Network Performance Issues in Virginia and Ohio United States
Cloudflare reported an incident affecting Cloudflare for 1 minute on 18 October 2026, from 09:37 to 09:37 UTC.
Resolved
Official incident reported by Cloudflare
- Started
- 09:37
- 18 Oct 2026 UTC
- Resolved
- 09:37
- 18 Oct 2026 UTC
- Duration
- <1m
- 1 minute
- Impact
- Minor
- as rated by Cloudflare
- Updates
- 1
- posted by Cloudflare
Timeline
All times UTC.
Official incident from Cloudflare
Network Performance Issues in Virginia and Ohio United States
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Official
Resolved
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. Services have fully normalized following the restoration of prefix advertisements.
"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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