Cloudflare incident: OBS API availability

Affected components

• Observatory

1. resolvedOct 14, 2026, 04:12 UTC

   For about 30 minutes there was reduced availability for customers using the OBS API. This has been identified, and we are back to normal for now.

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in Cloudflare's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

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