Root cause
Network
Routing, BGP, backbone, load balancer or connectivity faults.
Incidents per month
December 2025November 2026
Incidents
Questions
How common are outages caused by network?
86 incidents in the last 12 months across the vendors tracked here were traced to network in the vendors' own words.
How is this cause identified?
From the sentences where the vendor explains why the incident happened, or by hand for landmark postmortems. Symptoms like "elevated error rates" are never counted as a cause.