Cloudflare incident

Network Performance Issues in Eastern North America

Cloudflare experienced a major incident on October 15, 2026 affecting Ashburn, VA, United States - (IAD) and Newark, NJ, United States - (EWR) and 1 more component, lasting 49m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started: Oct 15, 2026, 08:48 PM UTC
Resolved: Oct 15, 2026, 09:38 PM UTC
Duration: 49m
Detected by Pingoru: Oct 15, 2026, 08:48 PM UTC

Affected components

Ashburn, VA, United States - (IAD)Newark, NJ, United States - (EWR)Network

Update timeline

identified Oct 15, 2026, 08:48 PM UTC

Cloudflare has identified an issue with network performance affecting our Ashburn (IAD) and Newark (EWR) facilities. Customers may observed elevated latency and/or errors for traffic handled by these facilities until the issue is resolved. We are working on a fix for this issue and will have more updates shortly.
monitoring Oct 15, 2026, 09:24 PM UTC

Our engineering teams are continuing to remediate the issue. No customer impact is being seen at this time.
resolved Oct 15, 2026, 09:38 PM UTC

This incident has been resolved.