Cloudflare outage on October 20, 2026: Cloudflare Zero Trust connectivity
Cloudflare reported an incident affecting Cloudflare for 3 hours 12 minutes on 20 October 2026, from 03:20 to 06:32 UTC.
Resolved
Official incident reported by Cloudflare
- Started
- 03:20
- 20 Oct 2026 UTC
- Resolved
- 06:32
- 20 Oct 2026 UTC
- Duration
- 3h 12m
- 3 hours 12 minutes
- Impact
- Critical
- as rated by Cloudflare
- Updates
- 9
- posted by Cloudflare
Timeline
All times UTC.
Official incident from Cloudflare
Cloudflare Zero Trust connectivity
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Official
Investigating
Cloudflare is investigating an issue with traffic that goes through Cloudflare One Gateway when an identity policy is present in the policy decision. This impacts all onramps to Cloudflare One Gateway. Cloudflare One Gateway policies with no identity policy are unaffected. We are also seeing impact to the Cloudflare Dashboard and are investigating further.
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Official
Investigating
We are continuing to investigate the issue.
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Official
Investigating
We are continuing to investigate the issue.
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Official
Investigating
We are continuing to investigate the issue.
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Official
Identified
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
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Official
Monitoring
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
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Official
Monitoring
The Cloudflare Access API continues to experience higher-than-normal error rates and increased latency. We are working to resolve the remaining API issues. Edge functionality, including Access logins and Cloudflare Secure Web Gateway connectivity, has been fully restored. We continue to monitor these services.
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Official
Monitoring
The Cloudflare Access API has been fully restored, with error rates and latency returning to normal levels. We continue to monitor these services.
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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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