Cloudflare R2 Issues

lowCloudflareJul 16, 2026 01:12Duration: 3h 38m

dnsapi

DNS FailureAPI Issue

Summary

This incident has been resolved.

Impact

minor

Timeline

Jul 16, 2026 01:12

[identified] Cloudflare is investigating elevated error rates affecting R2 and some services that depend on it, including Stream, Pipelines, and Log Explorer. Customers may have experienced increased errors reading or writing objects and delayed data processing. Impact was partially mitigated at approximately 21:52 UTC, and dependent services have recovered. A low level of R2 errors is still occurring, and we are actively working toward full resolution.

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+3h 26m

Jul 16, 2026 04:38

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

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+12m

Jul 16, 2026 04:49

[resolved] This incident has been resolved.

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Lessons Learned

⚠Cloudflare has experienced 252 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to dns, api have occurred 762 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: DNS Failure, API Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.