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docs(cni): clarify maintenance coordination (#33043)
* docs(cni): clarify maintenance coordination * docs(cni): scope maintenance guidance * docs(cni): clarify non-routine capacity * docs(cni): clarify non-routine deployment * docs(cni): align maintenance notice guidance * docs(cni): clarify redundant maintenance timing
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pcx_content_type: concept
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products:
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title: Maintenance
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description: Understand how Cloudflare coordinates maintenance across resilient CNI deployments.
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## Planned maintenance
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Routine CNI-disruptive maintenance is planned work that can interrupt traffic on an affected CNI connection. Cloudflare coordinates this work across resilient Cloudflare Network Interconnect (CNI) deployments, including across CNI locations.
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### Timing and scheduling
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For Dataplane v2 connectivity in multi-homed PoPs only:
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- **Routine maintenance**: Minimum one week notice.
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- **Emergency maintenance**: Best-effort notice, which may be less than one week.
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- Routine maintenance on redundant devices at the same location will occur on different days.
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- Routine maintenance is not rescheduled to accommodate customer schedule preferences.
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| CNI deployment | During routine CNI-disruptive maintenance |
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| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
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| One CNI connection at one location | The connection can be interrupted. |
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| Two CNI connections on separate devices at one location | One connection remains in service. |
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| Four CNI connections across two coordinated locations, with two connections on separate devices at each location | Three connections remain in service. |
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## Emergency and non-routine maintenance
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Non-routine maintenance, such as maintenance that affects an entire PoP, can affect all CNI connections at the affected location. For the four-connection deployment with two connections at each of two locations, a full-PoP non-routine event at one location can interrupt two connections, leaving two in service. Cloudflare avoids performing non-routine maintenance at multiple coordinated locations at the same time.
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Cloudflare coordinates emergency maintenance across locations where feasible.
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## Receive maintenance notifications
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To configure circuit-specific or point-of-presence (PoP) maintenance notifications, refer to [Monitoring and alerts](/network-interconnect/monitoring-and-alerts/).

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title: Operational guidance
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description: Maintenance windows and troubleshooting guidance for CNI
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## Understanding maintenance and availability
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For maintenance expectations and notifications, refer to [Maintenance](/network-interconnect/maintenance/).
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Also refer to [Monitoring and alerts](/network-interconnect/monitoring-and-alerts).
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Regular network maintenance may impact Cloudflare Network Interconnect (CNI) connectivity.
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- **Maintenance impact**: Maintenance windows average six hours. Customers who are not redundantly connected to diverse devices, for instance in single-homed PoPs, will experience a complete service disruption on CNI in that location.
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- **Designing for availability**: For critical applications, deploy CNI in locations that support diversity on the device level (multi-homed PoPs). Cloudflare does not guarantee coordinated maintenance between PoP locations.
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## Maintenance expectations
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### Notice periods
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For Dataplane v2 connectivity in multi-homed PoPs only:
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- **Routine maintenance**: Minimum two business days notice.
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- **Emergency maintenance**: Best-effort notice, which may be less than two business days.
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To receive advance alerts, configure [CNI maintenance notifications](/network-interconnect/monitoring-and-alerts/).
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### Scheduling patterns
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- Maintenance on redundant devices at the same location may occur on consecutive days with a minimum 16-hour gap between windows.
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- Cloudflare does not coordinate maintenance timing between different PoP locations.
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- Routine maintenance is generally not rescheduled to accommodate customer schedule preferences.
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### Customer responsibility
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## Customer responsibility
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Your CNI deployment must tolerate an unplanned outage on any single circuit at any time. This means:
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- **Identification**: The CNI IP address or point-to-point prefix for the impacted CNI. If your CNI is part of a Magic setup, please also provide the name of the Magic Transit/WAN interconnect as listed in your dashboard.
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- **Physical Layer**: Light levels of the CNI link (if applicable).
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- **Service Impact**: Confirmation whether Magic Transit / WAN traffic was affected.
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- **Problem Description**: A clear summary of the issue (for example, CNI down, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) session down, prefixes withdrawn).
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- **Problem Description**: A clear summary of the issue (for example, CNI down, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) session down, prefixes withdrawn).

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