Resolved: Cloudflare – Network Connectivity Issues in North America
Cloudflare: Network connectivity issues affecting services in North America. The incident is resolved.
The incident is confirmed by the operator’s official status page.
“This incident has been resolved.”
Status: RESOLVED Last checked: 10/23/2026 20:45
What we know
Network connectivity issues affecting services in North America
Affected components: Network
Incident timeline
10/23/2026 17:50 – CONFIRMED
“We are investigating degraded network performance affecting a portion of traffic between our data centers in Ashburn and Atlanta. Some customers may experience increased latency, packet loss, or occasional errors for Workers and other services in the eastern United States. Our network team is actively working to mitigate the issue.”
10/23/2026 18:10 – ISSUE IDENTIFIED
“We have identified an outage at a connectivity provider causing network congestion and degraded performance for some customers in North America. Affected customers may experience increased latency, packet loss, and occasional errors across multiple services. Our network team is rerouting traffic away from the affected paths and working directly with our provider on recovery.”
10/23/2026 18:30 – RECOVERY
“A fix has been deployed and we are monitoring the results.”
10/23/2026 19:00 – ISSUE IDENTIFIED
“We continue to work on fixing the issue.”
10/23/2026 19:05 – ISSUE IDENTIFIED
“The infrastructure provider experienced a recurrence of the outage. Cloudflare continues to implement traffic management measures to further mitigate the issue.”
10/23/2026 19:35 – ISSUE IDENTIFIED
“The team continues to implement traffic management measures to bypass the affected paths. The team will continue these measures until all packet loss can be mitigated.”
10/23/2026 19:40 – ISSUE IDENTIFIED
“The team continues to implement traffic management measures to bypass the affected paths. The team will continue these measures until all packet loss can be mitigated.”
10/23/2026 20:20 – RECOVERY
“Our network team rerouted traffic away from the affected paths and we are no longer seeing packet loss. Our connectivity provider reports that its service has been restored, but some interconnections are still coming back online, so we are keeping the traffic management changes in place.”
10/23/2026 20:45 – RESOLVED
“This incident has been resolved.”
Sources
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