Otava incident
Austin (AU1), Las Vegas (NV1), Indianapolis (IN1) VCD, Mid-Michigan (MM1) OTAVA® Shared + Private Cloud VCD and Encore Major Outage - 11/18/25
Otava experienced a critical incident on November 18, 2025 affecting OTAVA Shared Cloud and OTAVA Shared Cloud and 1 more component, lasting 3h 55m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- identified Nov 18, 2025, 02:07 PM UTC
Start Time: 11/18/25 - 7:30 AM ET Service Impacting: Major - High impact due to vendor outage. Description: OTAVA VMware Cloud Director functionality across multiple sites is currently unavailable due to a large Cloudflare outage. Updates for Cloudflare can be found at https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this maintenance please contact us by logging into https://support.otava.com or calling 877-740-5028, option 3.
- identified Nov 18, 2025, 02:09 PM UTC
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
- identified Nov 18, 2025, 02:26 PM UTC
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
- monitoring Nov 18, 2025, 03:14 PM UTC
Cloudflare has implemented a fix and we are continuing to monitor.
- resolved Nov 18, 2025, 06:03 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.