Planned Maintenance Notification for F5 Distributed Cloud Global Controller – Impact: Brief Interruption

Scheduled for Aug 22, 03:00 UTC  -  Aug 23, 11:00 UTC

Scheduled

Dear Valued Customers,

We would like to inform you of an upcoming Planned maintenance activity that will be performed on the following F5 service:
- F5 Distributed Cloud Global Controller

Maintenance Window:
Start Time: 22 Aug 2026 03:00 UTC
End Time: 23 Aug 2026 11:00 UTC

Schedule:
- 22 Aug 2026 03:00 UTC - 22 Aug 2026 11:00 UTC - Global Controller
- 23 Aug 2026 03:00 UTC - 23 Aug 2026 11:00 UTC - Backup Global Controller

Reference: SDCCAB-4885

Projected Impact:
During the maintenance window, Management Plane configuration changes will continue to persist and propagate normally. There will be a brief pause in configuration propagation while the configuration audit service is upgraded. During this time, Customer Edge (CE) health metrics may be temporarily unavailable, and access to the Distributed Cloud Console may be intermittently affected. Any interruption Distributed Cloud Console access is expected to be brief, and will be restored automatically as the upgrade progresses.

Reason for Maintenance:
We will be performing maintenance to upgrade the F5 Distributed Cloud Global Controller logging, metrics, and analytics services to the latest version. This update includes important improvements to help keep the platform running smoothly and reliably.

Our Commitment:
We will provide timely updates should there be any changes to the schedule or if unexpected issues arise.

Contact Information:
- Email Support: Reach us at support@cloud.f5.com for any questions or assistance.
- Phone Support: For region-specific contact details, please visit https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000135931.

We appreciate your cooperation and understanding as we work to improve our services.

Sincerely,
F5 Distributed Cloud
Posted Aug 07, 2026 - 22:01 UTC
This scheduled maintenance affects: Services (Portal & Customer Login).