Outage in Cloudflare

Network Congestion

Resolved Major

April 14, 2026 - Started about 2 months ago - Lasted about 12 hours
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Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

Cloudflare experienced network congestion in Eastern America and EU regions that caused increased HTTP 5xx errors across Cloudflare sites and services. The incident affected users' ability to access websites and services routed through Cloudflare's network in these regions for 11.7 hours. Cloudflare implemented a fix to address the network congestion and continued monitoring to ensure service stability.

Cloudflare is investigating an increased level of HTTP 5xx errors. We are working to analyse and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly.

Components affected

Cloudflare Sites and Services Cloudflare Network

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )

MONITORING about 2 months ago - at 04/14/2026 01:28PM

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

IDENTIFIED about 2 months ago - at 04/14/2026 01:06PM

Cloudflare is observing possible network congestion in the Eastern America and EU. We are working to mitigate impact to Internet users in these regions.

INVESTIGATING about 2 months ago - at 04/14/2026 12:47PM

Cloudflare is investigating an increased level of HTTP 5xx errors.

We are working to analyse and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly.

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