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Internet trends, as seen by the Cloudflare global network.
🚨 Significant traffic volume drop in #Cuba amidst reports of a nationwide energy outage. ETECSA (AS27725) in particular showing clear signs of impact.

📉 Following along on Radar: radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/cu?d...
September 18, 2026 at 7:57 PM
🚨 #GoogleCloud is reporting network service degradation in us-central1-b affecting multiple products.

📈 Cloudflare Radar observed a sharp spike in failed connection attempts to Google Cloud us-central1 origins around 14:30 UTC.

👀 Follow along on Radar: radar.cloudflare.com/cloud-observ...
September 1, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Regional power outages from flooding caused unstable Internet traffic in Kathmandu Valley and central Nepal today between 3:00–4:45 AM UTC. Impacted providers include AS17501, AS139922, and AS45650.

Follow along on Radar: radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/np?d...
August 28, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Iraq's government-directed #Internet shutdowns for national school exams have resumed. Following historical trends, we expect 90-minute shutdowns to be scheduled on exam days from August 26 through September 12, 2026.
Follow along on Cloudflare Radar: radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/IQ?dateRange=7d
August 26, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Cloudflare Radar data confirms early indications of a partial Internet restoration in Iran, nearly three months after the shutdown began. Traffic spikes and DNS queries have risen, but network activity is currently just 40% of pre-shutdown levels. blog.cloudflare.com/iran-interne...
Iran's Internet is partially restored, Cloudflare Radar data shows
Cloudflare Radar data confirms early indications of a partial Internet restoration in Iran, nearly three months after the shutdown began. Traffic spikes and DNS queries have risen, but network activit...
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May 27, 2026 at 6:01 PM
May 5 .de DNSSEC issues as seen through 1.1.1.1 Resolver data on Radar:
- Increased DS record request traffic share, from <1% to >10%
- Increased SERVFAIL response share, from <2% to 50%
- ~4x increase in query volume
- >80% drop in certificate issuance

radar.cloudflare.com/tlds/de?date...
May 6, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Apparent DNSSEC problems impacting the .de top-level domain (TLD) are visible on the Radar Data Explorer as a spike in SERVFAIL responses: radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dat...

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4802...
May 5, 2026 at 8:58 PM
More new TLD insights on Radar!

New TLD nameserver performance widgets on TLD detail pages show aggregate p25/p50/p75 latency and per-nameserver median latency from Cloudflare servers over time. Example: radar.cloudflare.com/tlds/kr#tld-...
May 5, 2026 at 3:36 PM
🚨 More new routing insights on Radar!

Track #RPKI ROA deployment history at a global/country/ASN level, going back 3+ years for valid prefixes & address space

radar.cloudflare.com/routing/rpki...
May 4, 2026 at 1:20 PM
The Cloud Observatory on Cloudflare Radar has been updated:
-Platform-level connection metrics on the landing page
-Provider pages show connection metrics for the top 5 fastest/slowest regions
-Region pages show connection metrics as %ile distributions

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May 1, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Interested in owning your own Top-Level Domain (TLD)? The #ICANN New gTLD Program: 2026 Round is now open -- newgtldprogram.icann.org/en

For more information about existing TLDs, or popular non-delegated TLDs, check out Radar's TLDs page at radar.cloudflare.com/tlds
May 1, 2026 at 1:01 PM
🕶️ New on Cloudflare Radar: DARK MODE support!

A theme selector in the upper right corner of the page now lets users explicitly choose light mode or dark mode, or to follow the system setting. The choice can be applied to shared and embedded graphs as well.
April 29, 2026 at 4:28 PM
On February 28, the #Internet was shut down in #Iran for the second time in 2026. Two months later, it remains largely unavailable. However, increased allowlisting of external sites, and availability of "Internet Pro" access has driven nominal increases in traffic visible in the back half of April.
April 28, 2026 at 12:49 PM
More agentic insights on Radar:
• URL Scanner now includes Agent Readiness radar.cloudflare.com/scan
• AI Insights shows adoption of AI agent standards radar.cloudflare.com/ai-insights#...
• AI Insights also tracks HTTP status codes returned to AI bots & crawlers radar.cloudflare.com/ai-insights#...
April 17, 2026 at 1:39 PM
#Sudan is in the midst of its 4th daily exam-related #Internet shutdown this week. Interesting to note that traffic from major domestic telecoms drops to zero between 11:45-15:15 UTC (13:45-17:15 local), but #Starlink traffic remains at normal levels.

radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/sd?d...
April 16, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Markdown for Agents reduces token usage by converting content to Markdown for agent consumption, instead of sending heavy HTML pages.

Radar now shows the median response size reduction for content using this feature.

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April 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Markdown for Agents reduces token usage by converting content to Markdown for agent consumption, instead of sending heavy HTML pages.

Radar now shows the median response size reduction for content using this feature.

radar.cloudflare.com/ai-insights#...
April 16, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Infrastructure damage from Super Typhoon #Sinlaku has disrupted #Internet connectivity across #Guam. Traffic from the territory has fallen as much as 80% below expected levels over the last day.

radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/gu?d...

www.guampdn.com/news/4-pm-tu...
April 14, 2026 at 1:41 PM
The #Internet shutdown in #Iran has now been in place for over six weeks. However, we have seen some traffic growth recently as additional sites/applications are allowlisted, and as more individuals/companies are allowed access to connectivity.

radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/ir
April 14, 2026 at 1:13 PM
We love seeing @radar.cloudflare.com data cited in research papers and other publications. In support of that, shareable widgets on Radar now contain a "generate citation" icon in the action bar, featuring BibTeX, APA, MLA, Chicago, and RIS styles.
April 13, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Exam season is here, and with that, #Internet shutdowns. Connectivity is being cut in #Sudan daily between 13:45-17:15 local time during the Sudanese Certificate Examination period. Radar data shows traffic dropping ~70% as compared to the week prior.

radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/sd?d...
April 13, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Reported sabotage of fiber-optic cables belonging to both the Ministry of Communications and Earthlink in Basra, Iraq led to a 2-hour outage between 05:30-07:30 today (08:30-10:30 local).

radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/8934...

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April 7, 2026 at 8:49 PM
The Amazon Web Services region in #Bahrain appears to be offline after being damaged again in another Iranian strike.

Traffic to me-south-1 disappeared ~01:00 UTC on April 1, with connection failures increasing significantly.

radar.cloudflare.com/cloud-observ...

www.reuters.com/world/middle...
April 2, 2026 at 12:20 PM
We've also extended bot traffic visibility on Radar to support sub-national filters.

Radar now shows bot traffic trends and which networks generate the most bot traffic from your state/region.

Examples: radar.cloudflare.com/bots/2267056
radar.cloudflare.com/bots/5549030
March 31, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Cloudflare Radar is a rich source of BGP and routing insights and data.

To recognize its importance, we've broken out "Routing" into its own section, featuring Overview, RPKI, and Anomalies pages, with more to come very soon.

Explore for yourself at radar.cloudflare.com/routing
March 31, 2026 at 6:53 PM