Cloudflare experienced a minor incident on August 5, 2026 affecting Challenge Platform and Firewall, lasting 1h 48m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Challenge PlatformFirewall
Update timeline
- investigating Aug 05, 2026, 04:17 AM UTC
Cloudflare is investigating an increased Managed Challenge errors in China. Other regions are unaffected. We are working to analyse and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly.
- investigating Aug 05, 2026, 04:34 AM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue. This may impact customers using China Network outside of China.
- identified Aug 05, 2026, 04:51 AM UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- monitoring Aug 05, 2026, 05:54 AM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved Aug 05, 2026, 06:06 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.