Internet Outages
Which networks and countries are disrupted right now, and why. The other half of a traceroute that dies mid-path.
About internet outages
An internet outage is rarely the whole internet going down. It is one operator, one cable or one country losing reachability, while everything else keeps working. This page lists the disruptions Cloudflare observes across its network: the countries and the autonomous systems affected, the declared cause when there is one, and when each event started and ended.
The network column is the one to read first. A traceroute that stops at hop 8 tells you where your packets die; an outage declared on that same autonomous system tells you whether anyone has admitted why. If the operator carrying your traffic appears here, there is nothing to debug on your side and no ticket worth opening beyond asking for an ETA. If it does not appear, the problem is more likely local, and a trace from a second source will say so in a minute. Causes matter too: a cable cut has a repair time measured in days, a power outage in hours, and a government-directed shutdown has no technical fix at all.
Frequently asked questions
- My site is down but nothing is listed here. What does that mean?
- That the disruption is not visible at the scale Cloudflare observes. Single-server failures, one bad route or a problem inside your own hosting provider never reach this list. Run a traceroute from two different sources: if only one fails, the problem is on that path, not on the internet.
- How quickly does an outage appear?
- Usually within minutes of traffic dropping, though the cause is often filled in later, once the operator says something. An event with no cause is not a less real outage, it is one nobody has explained yet.
- Does an ongoing outage mean my traffic is affected?
- Only if your path crosses the affected network. Look at the autonomous systems listed on the event and compare them with the AS numbers in your own traceroute. If none of them match, the outage is real but not yours.
- Where does this data come from?
- From Cloudflare Radar, which publishes what Cloudflare observes across its own network. It is one vantage point, a very large one, but not an omniscient one: an outage confined to a region where Cloudflare sees little traffic can be underreported.