Degraded network performance affecting some traffic between Cloudflare data centers
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Degraded network performance affecting some traffic between Cloudflare data centers Cloudflare operates global DNS, CDN, WAF, and edge network services. Outages here often affect many sites and APIs that sit behind their network.
resolved · 23 Oct 2026, 18:43 UTC
This incident has been resolved.
monitoring · 23 Oct 2026, 18:18 UTC
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.
identified · 23 Oct 2026, 17:33 UTC
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.
identified · 23 Oct 2026, 17:03 UTC
The infrastructure provider has experienced a recurrence of the failure. Cloudflare is continuing to apply traffic management actions to further remediate the issue.
identified · 23 Oct 2026, 16:59 UTC
We are continuing to work on a fix for the issue.
monitoring · 23 Oct 2026, 16:27 UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
identified · 23 Oct 2026, 16:07 UTC
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.
investigating · 23 Oct 2026, 15:47 UTC
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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