Cloudflare Outage History

Cloudflare Pages experienced build failures during a scheduled maintenance window in Karachi. The incident began at 9:00 PM UTC and caused errors for users starting or completing builds, impacting deployments on sites relying on Cloudflare Pages. Cloudflare’s status updates indicated the issue and noted that builds might fail or stall during this period.

The issue progressed with ongoing investigation and a recovery as maintenance concluded. Pages returned to normal on 2:05 PM UTC after roughly 17 hours, with the component moving from degraded to operational. The provider published three official status updates during the incident. User reports described build failures and connectivity issues affecting Pages deployments.

Cloudflare completed a brief scheduled maintenance window in the CMH (Columbus) region. The maintenance began at Jan 19, 2026 2:10 PM UTC and concluded at Jan 19, 2026 2:15 PM UTC, lasting about 5 minutes. The status page indicated the work was in progress and then quickly returned to normal, with a second update confirming that service was restored. The impact was regional to CMH with no broader outages reported.

Cloudflare reported connectivity issues at the Tokyo NRT POP starting at 1:15 PM UTC. This occurred within a maintenance window that began with Barcelona (BCN) maintenance around 1:15 AM UTC and continued with Columbus (CMH) maintenance around 8:01 AM UTC. Traffic through the NRT POP was affected during the incident, with users potentially experiencing intermittent connectivity and degraded performance. The outage lasted approximately 50 minutes, resolving by 2:05 PM UTC. Cloudflare issued 4 status updates during the incident, and there were no user reports recorded.

The outage began on Jan 12, 2026 5:10 PM UTC and was resolved by Jan 18, 2026 3:50 AM UTC. Cloudflare users experienced widespread issues with accessing the Cloudflare Dashboard and related services, with symptoms including loading failures, timeouts, and 5xx errors. The incident affected a broad set of Cloudflare products and components, including Email Routing in the dashboard, Cloudflare Observatory, Pages builds, Zero Trust, Support Portal, Turnstile, Workers, Analytics, Spectrum, Network, and API. Reports came from multiple regions around the world, indicating a global impact across the platform. Engineers issued numerous status updates throughout the event as investigations progressed and mitigations were applied, culminating in restoration of affected services by Jan 18, 2026 3:50 AM UTC.

Cloudflare experienced regional degradation beginning around 2:22 AM UTC, with Durable Objects in Eastern Europe showing an elevated overload pattern and São Paulo (GRU) reporting increased HTTP 5xx errors. A Paris CDG maintenance event was listed in the timeline, but the main impact was regional rather than global. Users in EEUR and GRU could have faced intermittent failures or slower responses during the incident. The outage lasted from 2:22 AM UTC to 1:05 PM UTC.

The Cloudflare Analytics processing experienced delays, causing slower delivery of analytics data to customers. This affected Cloudflare Sites and Services / Analytics, while analytics for DNS and Rate Limiting remained unaffected. The incident began at Jan 9, 2026 7:50 AM UTC and was resolved by Jan 10, 2026 12:30 PM UTC.

Cloudflare published two status updates during the incident to document the delays and recovery. User reports described delays in analytics data delivery, with some workflows experiencing slower data availability. The outage lasted roughly 28 hours and 40 minutes and affected a single component: Cloudflare Sites and Services / Analytics.

Cloudflare conducted scheduled maintenance in the ICN Seoul region starting on Jan 8, 2026 5:05 PM UTC which led to degraded performance for users relying on that region. The incident was listed as In progress during maintenance and ran for about 12 hours before services returned to normal. The status was updated by Cloudflare twice during the window. A single user report from Berlin appeared around Jan 8, 2026 10:10 PM UTC suggesting some visibility outside Asia, but the impact appears centered on ICN Seoul. The incident was resolved with Cloudflare returning to normal at Jan 9, 2026 5:05 AM UTC.

Cloudflare conducted scheduled maintenance in the Luanda region (LAD) on 2026-01-08. The maintenance window began around 1:01 AM UTC and the Cloudflare status page showed the incident as in-progress at 1:05 AM UTC, indicating degraded service for the Luanda area during the window.

The maintenance concluded with operations restored by 2:05 PM UTC, when the status changed to up. The status page published two updates during the incident, documenting ongoing maintenance and final restoration. The impact was regional to the Luanda area.

The incident began with scheduled maintenance in ICN Seoul at 4:00 PM UTC, followed by a second regional window in KIX Osaka starting at 5:45 PM UTC. During the maintenance, Cloudflare's Digital Experience Monitoring (DEX) reported that device state information (who is connected and mode) could be out of date, prompting an investigation. The affected DEX service remained in maintenance mode until it was restored by 11:05 PM UTC. The impact was regional to Seoul and Osaka rather than global, and updates indicated ongoing maintenance and a state synchronization issue.

Cloudflare reported a Paris CDG maintenance window beginning at Jan 7, 2026 1:01 AM UTC. While this work was in progress, the Mumbai region started showing increased HTTP errors, with multiple status updates indicating ongoing investigation and monitoring in the Asia / Mumbai, India - (BOM) area. The issue progressed through several updates as engineers analyzed the impact and worked toward mitigation.