Cloudflare outage on August 14 — 1 day, 1 hour disruption
Aug 14, 03:31 AM → Aug 15, 04:50 AM · 1d 1h · medium
Cloudflare experienced a service disruption. The incident began on August 14, 2026, at 03:31 UTC. Service was fully restored on August 15, 2026, at 04:50 UTC.
Impact
A medium-severity service disruption affected Cloudflare for approximately 1 day and 1 hour. This incident was detected through automated signals, including the vendor's status page and synthetic probes. No user-reported data, such as specific issue types or impacted regions, was collected for this incident. Therefore, the user-visible impact could not be determined from user reports.
Incident timeline
- Aug 14, 03:31 AM
PulseWatch detected the incident from automated vendor and probe signals (medium severity)
- Aug 14, 10:53 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- Aug 15, 04:50 AM
Signals cleared — incident resolved
Official updates
- Aug 14, 03:31 AM
Cloudflare status page acknowledged the incident.
View official source - Aug 15, 04:50 AM
Root cause: Widespread service degradation affecting Cloudflare, correlated with official/vendor, other signals, and support forums.