Outage in Cloudflare

Newark (EWR) Datacenter Increase in HTTP Request latency

Resolved Minor

February 16, 2026 - Started 2 months ago - Lasted 14 days
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Summary AI Generated

Cloudflare's Newark datacenter experienced elevated HTTP request latency affecting a subset of traffic, with some customers initially expected to see intermittent Data Loss Prevention (DLP) errors. The issue was identified on February 16th and a fix was implemented on February 26th after nearly two weeks of investigation. Further analysis confirmed that DLP services were ultimately not impacted by the incident.

Cloudflare has detected an issue regarding elevated latency affecting a subset of HTTP requests in Newark, NJ. We are actively investigating this region. Some customers using Cloudflare Data Loss Prevention (DLP) suite may see intermittent errors for traffic in this datacenter.

Components affected

Cloudflare North America Cloudflare Newark, NJ, United States - (EWR)

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )

MONITORING 2 months ago - at 02/27/2026 01:40PM

We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

MONITORING 2 months ago - at 02/26/2026 05:16PM

Further investigation has confirmed that Data Loss Prevention (DLP) services were not impacted by this incident.

MONITORING 2 months ago - at 02/26/2026 05:12PM

We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

MONITORING 2 months ago - at 02/26/2026 05:08PM

We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

MONITORING 2 months ago - at 02/26/2026 10:12AM

A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

IDENTIFIED 2 months ago - at 02/21/2026 09:57AM