Network performance issues in Ashburn, US (IAD)
Components
Regions
Countries
Network performance issues in Ashburn, US (IAD) Cloudflare operates global DNS, CDN, WAF, and edge network services. Outages here often affect many sites and APIs that sit behind their network.
monitoring · 13 Oct 2026, 10:42 UTC
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.
monitoring · 13 Oct 2026, 06:57 UTC
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
monitoring · 13 Oct 2026, 05:09 UTC
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).
monitoring · 13 Oct 2026, 05:00 UTC
We have taken measures to address any impact and are closely monitoring the situation.
identified · 13 Oct 2026, 04:52 UTC
We are continuing to work on a fix for the issue.
identified · 13 Oct 2026, 04:52 UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
investigating · 13 Oct 2026, 04:00 UTC
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.
5
Related incidents
10h 56m
This incident
2h 8m
Avg. resolution time
Slower
vs. average
If your product depends on Cloudflare, elevated errors during this window often come from upstream, not from your latest commit.
Open official status pageBe the first to know when we launch Pro alerts. No spam — only product updates.
Interested in
This outage lasted 10h 56m. Join the waitlist to get alerted next time.
Join the waitlist for Pro alerts — we'll notify you at launch.