Cloudflare outage, October 2026: Cache purge delays in Qingdao Shandong, China
Cloudflare reported and resolved an incident: Cache purge delays in Qingdao Shandong, China. It lasted 16 minutes.
OKResolved
From Cloudflare's official status page, in their words.
What happened
- Started
- Resolved
- Duration
- 16 minutes
- Impact
- minor
- Affected
- CDN Cache Purge
Why it happened
Cloudflare has not given a cause in its updates. We never guess one.
Timeline
Newest first. From Cloudflare's official status page, in their words.
- resolved
This incident has been resolved.
- monitoring
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- investigating
Cloudflare is observing cache purge delay in Qingdao in Shandong, China. We are working to resolve this issue as soon as possible. More updates to follow.
What this means for a business (and what to check now)
- Retry anything that failed during the 16 minutes.
- Enter any payments, bookings or jobs you took another way.
- If a deadline fell inside the window, keep this page as your record of the outage.
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Other Cloudflare incidents
- NRT (Tokyo) on 2026-11-03, maintenance scheduled
- HKG (Hong Kong) on 2026-11-02, maintenance scheduled
- IAH (Houston) on 2026-11-03, maintenance scheduled
- SJC (San Jose) on 2026-11-03, maintenance scheduled
- Worker Deployments Delayed, resolved after 49 minutes
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