Cloudflare outage on October 22, 2026: Network congestion in Portland and Seattle, US

Cloudflare reported an incident affecting Cloudflare for 1 hour 46 minutes on 22 October 2026, from 00:23 to 02:09 UTC.

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Resolved

Official incident reported by Cloudflare

Started: 00:23; 22 Oct 2026 UTC
Resolved: 02:09; 22 Oct 2026 UTC
Duration: 1h 46m; 1 hour 46 minutes
Impact: Minor; as rated by Cloudflare
Updates: 3; posted by Cloudflare

Timeline

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Official incident from Cloudflare

Network congestion in Portland and Seattle, US

Resolved Minor impact 22 Oct 2026 00:23 UTC View on Cloudflare's status page

00:23 Official
Investigating
Cloudflare is experiencing network congestion in Portland and Seattle, US. We are working to mitigate impact to Internet users in this region.
01:08 Official
Monitoring
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
02:09 Official
Resolved
This incident has been resolved.

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