Cloudflare outage on October 23, 2026: Network connectivity issues affecting services in North America
Cloudflare reported an incident affecting Cloudflare for 2 hours 56 minutes on 23 October 2026, from 15:47 to 18:43 UTC.
Resolved
Official incident reported by Cloudflare
- Started
- 15:47
- 23 Oct 2026 UTC
- Resolved
- 18:43
- 23 Oct 2026 UTC
- Duration
- 2h 56m
- 2 hours 56 minutes
- Impact
- Major
- as rated by Cloudflare
- Updates
- 8
- posted by Cloudflare
Timeline
All times UTC.
Official incident from Cloudflare
Network connectivity issues affecting services in North America
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Official
Investigating
We are investigating degraded network performance affecting some traffic between our Ashburn and Atlanta data centers. Some customers may see increased latency, packet loss, or intermittent errors on Workers and other services in the Eastern US. Our network team is actively working on mitigation.
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Official
Identified
We have identified a connectivity provider outage causing network congestion and degraded performance for some customers in North America. Affected customers may experience increased latency, packet loss, and intermittent errors across multiple services. Our network team is rerouting traffic away from affected paths, and we are working directly with our provider on restoration.
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Official
Monitoring
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
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Official
Identified
We are continuing to work on a fix for the issue.
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Official
Identified
The infrastructure provider has experienced a recurrence of the failure. Cloudflare is continuing to apply traffic management actions to further remediate the issue.
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Official
Identified
The team is continuing to perform traffic engineering actions to route around impacted paths. The team will continue performing traffic engineering actions until all packet drops are mitigated.
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Official
Monitoring
Our network team has rerouted traffic around the impacted paths and we are no longer seeing packet drops. Our connectivity provider reports that its service has been restored, but some links are still being brought back, so we are keeping our traffic management changes in place.
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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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