Newark (EWR) Datacenter Increase in HTTP Request latency

lowCloudflareFeb 16, 2026 10:19Duration: 334h 56m

api

API Issue

Summary

This incident has been resolved.

Impact

none

Timeline

Feb 16, 2026 10:19

[investigating] Cloudflare has detected an issue regarding elevated latency affecting a subset of HTTP requests in Newark, NJ. We are actively investigating this region. Some customers using Cloudflare Data Loss Prevention (DLP) suite may see intermittent errors for traffic in this datacenter.

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+4m

Feb 16, 2026 10:23

[investigating] We are continuing to investigate this issue.

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+1h 39m

Feb 16, 2026 12:02

[identified] The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

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+24h 5m

Feb 17, 2026 12:07

[identified] We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

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+26h 30m

Feb 18, 2026 14:36

[identified] We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

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+20h 48m

Feb 19, 2026 11:25

[identified] We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

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+5h

Feb 19, 2026 16:24

[identified] We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

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+19h 21m

Feb 20, 2026 11:45

[identified] We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

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+22h 12m

Feb 21, 2026 09:57

[identified] We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

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+120h 15m

Feb 26, 2026 10:12

[monitoring] A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

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+6h 55m

Feb 26, 2026 17:08

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

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+4m

Feb 26, 2026 17:12

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

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+4m

Feb 26, 2026 17:16

[monitoring] Further investigation has confirmed that Data Loss Prevention (DLP) services were not impacted by this incident.

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+20h 25m

Feb 27, 2026 13:40

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

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+67h 35m

Mar 2, 2026 09:15

[resolved] This incident has been resolved.

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Lessons Learned

⚠Cloudflare has experienced 59 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to api have occurred 182 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: API Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.

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Source

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