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Cloudflare Outage History

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

There were 3144 Cloudflare outages since March 2020. The 735 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Minor May 19, 2026

May 2026: Cloudflare Dashboard and Cloudflare API service issues

Detected May 19, 2026 11:36 AM EDT · Resolved May 19, 2026 12:50 PM EDT · Duration about 1 hour

Cloudflare experienced issues with their Dashboard and API services for 1.2 hours, causing requests to fail and errors to display for customers using these management interfaces. The CDN and security features at the edge continued to function normally, so website performance and protection were not affected. A fix was implemented and the service was restored to normal operation.

Minor May 19, 2026

May 2026: Digital Experience in Cloudflare Zero Trust Latency

Detected May 19, 2026 11:25 AM EDT · Resolved May 19, 2026 12:02 PM EDT · Duration 36 minutes

Cloudflare experienced delays in Digital Experience actions within their Zero Trust platform, affecting Cloudflare Sites and Services, Digital Experience Monitoring (DEX), and Zero Trust components. The incident lasted 36 minutes with Cloudflare investigating the latency issues. The service disruption was classified as minor impact.

Minor May 19, 2026

May 2026: Workers AI availability issues

Detected May 19, 2026 6:56 AM EDT · Resolved May 19, 2026 7:59 AM EDT · Duration about 1 hour

Cloudflare experienced availability issues with several Workers AI models that affected Cloudflare Sites and Services and the Workers AI platform. The incident lasted 1.1 hours, during which users likely encountered disruptions when trying to access or use AI model functionality. Cloudflare identified the root cause, implemented a fix, and restored service while monitoring for stability.

Major May 19, 2026

May 2026: Degraded latency for Durable Objects and R2 buckets in WNAM

Detected May 19, 2026 4:13 AM EDT · Resolved May 19, 2026 6:07 AM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

Cloudflare experienced a major service incident affecting Durable Objects and R2 buckets in the WNAM region, causing increased latency, reduced throughput, and slightly elevated error rates. The incident also impacted Cloudflare Sites and Services. The issue was resolved after 1.9 hours of investigation and remediation efforts.

Minor May 18, 2026

May 2026: Issues with Cloudflare Log Explorer

Detected May 18, 2026 1:37 AM EDT · Resolved May 18, 2026 2:34 AM EDT · Duration about 1 hour

Cloudflare experienced issues with their Log Explorer service affecting customers in the Los Angeles region, causing delays in log visibility through both the dashboard and API. The incident lasted 57 minutes, during which customers could not access their logs in a timely manner. The issue was identified and resolved with a fix implementation.

Minor May 16, 2026

May 2026: PayPal Billing Issues

Detected May 16, 2026 1:54 PM EDT · Resolved May 20, 2026 10:18 AM EDT · Duration 4 days

Cloudflare experienced PayPal billing issues that prevented customers from purchasing or renewing products, resulting in payment errors during checkout. The incident affected Cloudflare's billing system and lasted approximately 92 hours. The issue was identified and resolved with a fix implementation, followed by monitoring to ensure stability.

Minor May 15, 2026

May 2026: R2 and Durable Objects increased errors in Eastern North America

Detected May 15, 2026 9:55 PM EDT · Resolved May 16, 2026 1:05 AM EDT · Duration about 3 hours

Cloudflare experienced increased errors with R2 and Durable Objects in Eastern North America for 3.2 hours, also affecting Workflows, Queues, Cache Reserve, Cache Purge API, Worker uploads with R2 bindings, and Workflow instance creation. The service errors were resolved and systems returned to stable operation.

Minor May 15, 2026

May 2026: Bot Management Issues

Detected May 15, 2026 10:57 AM EDT · Resolved May 18, 2026 5:59 AM EDT · Duration 3 days

Cloudflare's Bot Management feature experienced issues causing an abnormally high percentage of legitimate traffic to be incorrectly flagged as automated bots. The incident affected Cloudflare Sites and Services and the Bot Management component for 67 hours. The issue was identified and a fix was implemented to restore normal bot detection accuracy.

Minor May 15, 2026

May 2026: Cloudflare Account Level WAF Rule Editing Restricted

Detected May 15, 2026 10:06 AM EDT · Resolved May 15, 2026 10:19 AM EDT · Duration 13 minutes

Cloudflare experienced a 13-minute incident where users were unable to edit existing Account level WAF rules, though zone level rules, new rule creation, and rule operation remained unaffected. The issue impacted Cloudflare Sites and Services and Rules components. A fix was implemented and monitoring confirmed the resolution.

Minor May 14, 2026

May 2026: Elevated error rate on Cloudflare Stream API operations

Detected May 14, 2026 11:30 AM EDT · Resolved May 14, 2026 12:17 PM EDT · Duration about 1 hour

Cloudflare Stream API experienced elevated error rates for 47 minutes, causing HTTP 503 errors when customers attempted to create or update videos and start/stop live broadcasts. Video playback remained unaffected throughout the incident. The issue was resolved after investigation and remediation efforts.