Internet Status โ March 18, 2026: Cloudflare HTTP 520 Errors Under Investigation
Cloudflare is experiencing an active incident involving increased HTTP 520 errors, specifically affecting HEAD requests. The issue was identified at 09:53 UTC on March 18, and a fix is currently being implemented. Separately, Cloudflare is performing scheduled maintenance at its LAX (Los Angeles) datacenter through March 19 at 00:00 UTC, which may cause slight latency increases for traffic routed through that facility.
All other major cloud and infrastructure providers are reporting normal operations:
No new BGP routing incidents have been detected today. The most recent BGP-related events were a Cloudflare BYOIP route withdrawal on February 20 and a route leak on January 22, both of which have been fully resolved.
On the local level, the City of Midland, Texas reported an internet outage affecting some city services on March 17, which may still be ongoing.
Overall, the internet is functioning normally with a minor, limited-scope incident at Cloudflare that is actively being addressed.