Update – Some customers may be still experiencing issues logging into or using the Cloudflare dashboard. We are working on a fix to resolve this, and continuing to monitor for any further issues. Nov 18, 2025 – 14:57 UTC
In incident management, monitoring is when the incident team watches how a fix works in the real world. Ideally, fixes are tested in an environment before they are unleashed to the public. The team will look for issues and ask for reports from a number of sources with which they have close ties.
These issues are not incidents in the traditional sense, rather they are used to tweak the fix, with the hope that they resolve the incident.
Don't worry if you have issues, this is a planned scheduled maintenance and not part of the global outage. Which should hopefully be coming to an end.
In progress – Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary. Nov 18, 2025 – 15:01 UTC
The Downdetector outage graph is going down! Just 1,660 reported outages right now.
I won’t mince words: earlier today we failed our customers and the broader Internet when a problem in Cloudflare network impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on us. The sites, businesses, and organizations that rely on Cloudflare depend on us being available and I apologize for the impact that we caused. Transparency about what happened matters, and we plan to share a breakdown with more details in a few hours. In short, a latent bug in a service underpinning our bot mitigation capability started to crash after a routine configuration change we made. That cascaded into a broad degradation to our network and other services. This was not an attack. That issue, impact it caused, and time to resolution is unacceptable. Work is already underway to make sure it does not happen again, but I know it caused real pain today. The trust our customers place in us is what we value the most and we are going to do what it takes to earn that back.
Cloudflare's latest update says: " Update – We continue to see errors drop as we work through services globally and clearing remaining errors and latency."
Looks like this one is winding up folks, with most errors and disruption now cleared.
TunaTops Cloudfare is the server used for PADS, the background check site for the nuclear plant I work at. Without the ability to perform live background checks, I am not able to allow visitors access to the plant. Many of our subcontractor workers rely on visitor badges, as they are not permanent employees. Reply
AICl0ud On wikipedia "Internet Wikipedia": … According to Charles Herzfeld, ARPA Director (1965–1967): The ARPANET was not started to create a Command and Control System that would survive a nuclear attack, as many now claim. To build such a system was, clearly, a major military need, but it was not ARPA's mission to do this; in fact, we would have been severely criticized had we tried. Rather, the ARPANET came out of our frustration that there were only a limited number of large, powerful research computers in the country, and that many research investigators, who should have access to them, were geographically separated from them. … By centralizing everything, it's easier to spy on and control everyone. It's clear that Cloudflare controls a significant percentage of websites. Agencies like the NSA and other truly secretive ones must be enjoying all this "data"… Another example of human "intelligence." And we will continue, with each technological advancement, to control the population more and more, and since they are still just as brainwashed ("TV, the opium of the people"; "the smartphone, the heroin of the people"; "the internet, the fentanyl of the people"), they won't care about being tracked and controlled, just as the Nazis did, to take only one example. Ironically, the personal computer was created to get rid of centralization. But, humans being just as foolish, they have reverted to centralization, much to the delight of "secret" agencies and "private" companies that make trillions selling people's data to the highest bidder. Don't mention "1984", "Brave New World", or "Soylent Green" to smartphone users. For them, even thinking about them has become intellectual terrorism. Reply
rluker5 Lot of outages lately. Is there some new attack vector being utilized? Odds of random hardware failures are decreasing the more the failure frequency deviates from the norm. SQUIP supposedly can be used remotely without admin or local access: https://stefangast.eu/papers/javasquip.pdf but this is an old vulnerability so seems unlikely. Probably something new. Hope it gets squashed whatever it is. Reply
emmaboo327 I can't even get into my bank account, they need to hurry up! I use varo online banking and can't move anything, so therefore I dont have money. This is frustrating Reply
valthuer I can't even begin to count the number of websites i had no access to. Fortunately, it looks like the situation has smoothed out now – at least for the most part. Reply
logainofhades Yea I am noticing that some sites that were down, are back up now. Reply
Heat_Fan89 Welcome to the digital world. I can't help but think what kind of chaos would unfold if we were all using digital currencies and digital ID's? Reply
CParsons rluker5 said: Lot of outages lately. Is there some new attack vector being utilized? Odds of random hardware failures are decreasing the more the failure frequency deviates from the norm. SQUIP supposedly can be used remotely without admin or local access: https://stefangast.eu/papers/javasquip.pdf but this is an old vulnerability so seems unlikely. Probably something new. Hope it gets squashed whatever it is. AI bots. They're flooding websites and services. Not only is it happening on a large scale, it's also happening on smaller scale since anyone with a username can now create their own bots / scrapers with just a few prompts. Even the services designed to help protect us from such things such as Cloudflare are not prepared for this ever evolving change. Reply
TechieTwo Obviously in a digital world there needs to be better backup / load spreading systems to reduce or eliminate these issues. It seems that little thought is given to the consequences of down time when these systems are created. Banking, communications and other critical systems need to be protected from these outages. Betting the farm on one system is naive and irresponsible. Reply
Elusive Ruse Suffered an hour long outage of some of our critical tools at work today due to this. Reply
Key considerations
- Investor positioning can change fast
- Volatility remains possible near catalysts
- Macro rates and liquidity can dominate flows
Reference reading
- https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/cloudflare-outage-under-investigation-as-twitter-downdetector-go-down-company-confirms-global-network-issue-clone#main
- https://www.tomshardware.com
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