A diversity of downtime: the Q4 2024 Internet disruption summary
2025-01-28
After a rather busy third quarter, the fourth quarter of 2024 saw significantly fewer Internet disruptions....
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Forced offline: the Q3 2024 Internet disruption summary
2024-10-29
The third quarter of 2024 was particularly active, with quite a few significant Internet disruptions. Underlying causes included government-directed shutdowns, power outages, hurricane damage, terrestrial and submarine cable cuts, military action, and more....
A recent spate of Internet disruptions
2024-08-01
Cloudflare Radar is constantly monitoring the Internet for widespread disruptions. Here we examine several recent noteworthy disruptions detected in the first month of Q3, including traffic anomalies observed in Bangladesh, Syria, Pakistan, and Venezuela....
Q2 2024 Internet disruption summary
2024-07-16
Government directed shutdowns and cable cuts were both significant sources of Internet outages in Q2 2024. This post explores these disruptions, as well as others caused by power outages, maintenance, technical problems, military action, and unknown causes...
Exam-ining recent Internet shutdowns in Syria, Iraq, and Algeria
2024-06-21
Similar to actions taken over the last several years, governments in Syria, Iraq, and Algeria have again disrupted Internet connectivity nationwide in an attempt to prevent cheating on exams. We investigate how these disruptions were implemented, and their impact...
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April 29, 2024 1:00 PM
Q1 2024 Internet disruption summary
The first quarter of 2024 kicked off with quite a few Internet disruptions. Perhaps most interestingly, RPKI, DNS, and DNSSEC issues were among the technical problems that disrupted connectivity for subscribers across multiple network providers...
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January 22, 2024 2:00 PM
Q4 2023 Internet disruption summary
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the fourth quarter of 2023, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography...
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October 25, 2023 1:05 PM
Q3 2023 Internet disruption summary
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the third quarter of 2023, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography...
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July 27, 2023 1:05 PM
Q2 2023 Internet disruption summary
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the second quarter of 2023, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography...
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June 13, 2023 1:18 PM
Exam-related Internet shutdowns in Iraq and Algeria put connectivity to the test
During the first two weeks of June 2023, we’ve seen Iraq implementing a series of multi-hour shutdowns that will reportedly occur through mid-July, as well as Algeria taking similar actions to prevent cheating on baccalaureate exams...
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April 12, 2023 1:00 PM
Internet disruptions overview for Q1 2023
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the first quarter of 2023, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography...
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March 28, 2023 1:00 PM
Cloudflare’s commitment to the 2023 Summit for Democracy
Cloudflare is proud to participate in and contribute commitments to the 2023 Summit Summit for Democracy because we believe that everyone should have access to an Internet that is faster, more reliable, more private, and more secure...
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January 20, 2023 2:00 PM
Internet disruptions overview for Q4 2022
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the fourth quarter of 2022, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography....
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December 15, 2022 2:02 PM
Partnering with civil society to track Internet shutdowns with Radar Alerts and API
Learn more on how Cloudflare works with civil society organizations to provide tools to track Internet shutdowns using Radar Alerts and API....
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October 18, 2022 5:36 PM
Internet disruptions overview for Q3 2022
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the second quarter of 2022, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography...
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September 22, 2022 11:55 AM
Protests spur Internet disruptions in Iran
The Iranian government has disrupted Internet connectivity in response to recent protests over the death of a woman while in police custody...
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July 05, 2022 1:26 PM
Internet disruptions overview for Q2 2022
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the second quarter of 2022, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools....
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June 14, 2022 12:55 PM
Exam time means Internet disruptions in Syria, Sudan and Algeria
As they have done over the past several years, Syria and Sudan are implementing multi-hour nationwide Internet shutdowns. Algeria has also taken a similar approach in the past, but this year appears to be implementing more targeted website/app blocking...
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February 22, 2022 1:04 PM
Internet is back in Tonga after 38 days of outage
Tonga, the South Pacific archipelago nation (with 169 islands), was reconnected to the Internet this early morning (UTC) and is back online after successful repairs to the undersea cable that was damaged on Saturday, January 15, 2022, by the January 14, volcanic eruption...
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January 24, 2022 1:44 PM
Burkina Faso experiencing second major Internet disruption this year
The early hours of Sunday, January 23, 2022, started in Burkina Faso with an Internet outage or shutdown...
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