TL;DR

On Feb 20, 2026, Cloudflare had an outage impacting a portion of BYOIP users due to route withdrawal issues through BGP.

What happened

['Cloudflare experienced an outage', 'BYOIP service customers affected', 'BGP route withdrawals occurred']

Why it matters for ops

['Configuration error in routing infrastructure', 'Incorrect BGP announcements', 'Service disruption']

Mitigation

  • Review and validate routing configurations
  • Implement redundant BGP announcements
  • Monitor service health closely

Action items

  • Contact Cloudflare support if impacted
  • Update DNS records to secondary providers
  • Document incident for future reference

Detection IOCs

  • Increased latency for specific IP ranges
  • Unexpected disconnection from Cloudflare services
  • Logs showing route withdrawals via BGP

Source link

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-february-20-2026/