Possible Network Congestion in North America region

lowCloudflareJul 30, 2026 05:48Duration: 4h 20m

networkrouting

Network / Routing

Summary

This incident has been resolved.

Impact

minor

Timeline

Jul 30, 2026 05:48

[investigating] Cloudflare is observing possible network congestion in the North America region. Customers may see elevated latency and connectivity issues. We are working to mitigate impact to Internet users in this region.

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+2h 3m

Jul 30, 2026 07:51

[monitoring] Cloudflare identified that the Network degradation was due to maintenance conducted by fiber providers. The congestion has been alleviated by rerouting traffic. We are currently monitoring the situation and will follow up with more updates shortly.

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+7m

Jul 30, 2026 07:57

[monitoring] We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

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+2h 11m

Jul 30, 2026 10:08

[resolved] This incident has been resolved.

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Lessons Learned

⚠Cloudflare has experienced 290 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to network, routing have occurred 224 times across all providers in the past year. This is one of the most common failure categories in cloud infrastructure.

💡This incident is categorized as: Network / Routing. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.