Cloudflare incident: Elevated errors for some requests in Ashburn, Virginia

Affected components

• Ashburn, VA, United States - (IAD)
• CDN/Cache
• Workers

1. resolvedOct 22, 2026, 17:31 UTC

   This incident has been resolved.

2. investigatingOct 22, 2026, 17:01 UTC

   We are investigating elevated error rates (HTTP 502) for some requests handled by our Ashburn, Virginia data center. Some customers may see failed or intermittent responses for websites and applications, including Workers, served through this location. We are actively investigating and will provide updates as we learn more.

What APIStatus.watch saw

• Oct 22, 2026, 16:35 UTCoperational → partial outage

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