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Cloudflare Outage History

Every past Cloudflare outage tracked by IsDown, with detection times, duration, and resolution details.

There were 3029 Cloudflare outages since March 2020. The 697 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Minor March 16, 2026

March 2026: Cloudflare Zero Trust: Gateway Issues

Detected Mar 16, 2026 11:42 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 16, 2026 4:14 PM EDT · Duration about 5 hours

Cloudflare experienced intermittent API failures affecting Zero Trust Gateway for 4.5 hours, preventing customers from viewing or editing policies in the Zero Trust dashboard. Existing policies continued to function normally throughout the incident. The issue was identified and a fix was implemented to resolve the API failures.

Minor March 16, 2026

March 2026: Elevated Error Rates for Workers AI Services

Detected Mar 16, 2026 9:58 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 16, 2026 11:37 AM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

Cloudflare experienced elevated error rates affecting Workers AI services, with users encountering increased timeout (408) errors across multiple AI models. The incident also impacted Cloudflare Sites and Services during the 1.7-hour outage. Engineering teams implemented a fix and continued monitoring to ensure service stability was restored.

Minor March 15, 2026

March 2026: SSL Certificate Provisioning Delays

Detected Mar 15, 2026 6:46 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 15, 2026 7:11 PM EDT · Duration 26 minutes

Cloudflare experienced delays in SSL certificate provisioning, with new certificates taking up to 45 minutes to provision instead of the normal timeframe. Existing SSL certificates in production continued to operate normally and were not affected. The issue was identified and fixed within 26 minutes, with monitoring in place to ensure resolution.

Major March 13, 2026

March 2026: Cloudflare Dashboard and Cloudflare API service issues

Detected Mar 13, 2026 3:17 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 13, 2026 5:09 AM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

Cloudflare experienced intermittent issues with their Dashboard and APIs for 1.9 hours, causing request failures and error displays for customers using these services. The CDN and edge security features remained unaffected throughout the incident. Cloudflare identified the root cause and implemented a fix, then monitored the results to ensure resolution.

Minor March 12, 2026

March 2026: Network Performance Issues in Russia

Detected Mar 12, 2026 7:30 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 12, 2026 8:00 PM EDT · Duration 30 minutes

Cloudflare experienced network performance issues affecting users in Russia for 30 minutes. The service degradation impacted connectivity and response times for Russian users accessing Cloudflare-protected websites and services. The incident was investigated and resolved within the 30-minute timeframe.

Minor March 12, 2026

March 2026: AI Gateway

Detected Mar 12, 2026 6:09 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 12, 2026 7:16 PM EDT · Duration about 1 hour

Cloudflare's AI Gateway experienced a minor service incident where users were unable to purchase prepaid billing credits. The issue affected Cloudflare Sites and Services along with AI Gateway for 1.1 hours. A fix was implemented and the service was restored to normal operation.

Major March 12, 2026

March 2026: Increased Error Rates in North America West

Detected Mar 12, 2026 12:45 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 12, 2026 1:24 PM EDT · Duration 39 minutes

Cloudflare experienced a major service incident affecting users in the Seattle region with increased error rates when accessing Cloudflare services. The incident lasted 39 minutes and impacted users throughout North America West. The issue was under investigation with Cloudflare working to resolve the elevated error rates in their Seattle infrastructure.

Minor March 12, 2026

March 2026: Cloudchamber Service Degradation

Detected Mar 12, 2026 10:22 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 12, 2026 4:32 PM EDT · Duration about 6 hours

Cloudflare's Cloudchamber service experienced degradation for 6.2 hours starting at 12:59 UTC, preventing some customers from provisioning new containers. The issue affected Cloudflare Sites and Services and Containers components. The problem was identified and a fix was implemented to resolve the service disruption.

Minor March 11, 2026

March 2026: Cloudflare Pages Availability Issues

Detected Mar 11, 2026 4:57 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 11, 2026 5:04 PM EDT · Duration 6 minutes

Cloudflare Pages experienced availability issues that caused visitors to encounter errors when attempting to load Pages-based websites. The incident was isolated to Cloudflare Pages and did not impact other Cloudflare services. The issue was resolved after 6 minutes of investigation and mitigation efforts.

Major March 11, 2026

March 2026: issues with Cloudflare Dashboard

Detected Mar 11, 2026 3:01 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 11, 2026 5:59 PM EDT · Duration about 3 hours

Cloudflare experienced a major outage affecting their Dashboard and related APIs for 3 hours, causing request failures and error displays for customers using these services. The CDN and edge security features remained unaffected throughout the incident. The issue was identified and a temporary fix was implemented, with the team working on a long-term resolution.