Major incident

Cloudflare: ERR_TIMED_OUT and ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE being observed by Cloudflare Customers

Current status of Cloudflare: Partial outage — live Cloudflare status

Timeline

1. Oct 27, 2026, 12:28 UTC
   identified
   Cloudflare has identified an issue affecting customers whose traffic passes through an external vendor firewall. Customers may observe: ERR_TIMED_OUT on standard HTTPS websites ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE on non-standard HTTPS ports (e.g., 8443) We're investigating to confirm the root cause and possible fixes.
2. Oct 27, 2026, 13:20 UTC
   identified
   Cloudflare has identified an issue affecting customers whose traffic passes through an external vendor firewall. Customers may observe: ERR_TIMED_OUT on standard HTTPS websites ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE on non-standard HTTPS ports (e.g., 8443) We're investigating to confirm the root cause and possible fixes.
3. Oct 27, 2026, 14:38 UTC
   identified
   Cloudflare has identified an issue affecting customers whose traffic passes through an external vendor firewall. Customers may observe: ERR_TIMED_OUT on standard HTTPS websites ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE on non-standard HTTPS ports (e.g., 8443) We're investigating to confirm the root cause and possible fixes.
4. Oct 27, 2026, 14:52 UTC
   monitoring
   A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
5. Oct 27, 2026, 15:12 UTC
   resolved
   This incident has been resolved.

Updates as published by Cloudflare (original).