Element incident
Issues at CloudFlare causing widespread outages in EMS
Element experienced a major incident on November 18, 2025 affecting Customer portal and IRC and 1 more component, lasting 18h 17m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Customer portalIRCImage Registry (registry.element.io)SignalLondon hostsTelegramElement OneFrankfurt hostsWhatsAppOhio hosts
Update timeline
- identified Nov 18, 2025, 12:12 PM UTC
Due to upstream CloudFlare issues (see https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7), some EMS services are affected. We are following and will update once resolved.
- monitoring Nov 18, 2025, 02:55 PM UTC
CloudFlare reports issues have been fixed. All services on EMS should be gradually returning to normal.
- resolved Nov 19, 2025, 06:30 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.