WEB DESK: Cloudflare suffered disruption and triggered downtime on popular websites like X, as confirmed by the official cloud flare status page.
As per detail, Cloudflare, a key provider of internal infrastructure and website security suffered a major disruption on Tuesday, causing widespread outage multiple platforms including thousand of reports from users of social media.
The outage also briefly allocated tracking service down detector, Users encounters alerts flagging an internal server error on Cloudflare network and were asked to try again after a few minutes.
The administration of the Cloudflare acknowledged the issue in a series of updates, initially reporting “ widespread 500 errors” dashboard and API failures and what a described as “internal service degradation”. The company and several services were impacted as team worked to resolve functionality.
“We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly,” Cloudflare said in its early statements.
Later, the company reported signs of improvement: “We are seeing services recover, but customers may continue to observe higher-than-normal error rates as we continue remediation efforts.”
Cybersecurity watchdog NetBlocks confirmed the global nature of the disruption, noting that the incident was not linked to any country-level internet shutdowns or filtering.
Cloudflare said it would continue providing updates as it moved toward full restoration of services.
