Cloudflare outage: Network Performance Issues in Eastern North America

Affected components

• Ashburn, VA, United States - (IAD)
• Network
• Newark, NJ, United States - (EWR)

1. resolvedOct 15, 2026, 21:38 UTC

   This incident has been resolved.

2. monitoringOct 15, 2026, 21:24 UTC

   Our engineering teams are continuing to remediate the issue. No customer impact is being seen at this time.

3. identifiedOct 15, 2026, 20:48 UTC

   Cloudflare has identified an issue with network performance affecting our Ashburn (IAD) and Newark (EWR) facilities. Customers may observed elevated latency and/or errors for traffic handled by these facilities until the issue is resolved. We are working on a fix for this issue and will have more updates shortly.

What APIStatus.watch saw

• Oct 15, 2026, 21:09 UTCoperational → partial outage
• Oct 15, 2026, 21:39 UTCpartial outage → operational

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