Is Cloudflare Down Right Now?

The instant check tool above tests cloudflare.com live from HostTracker's network of 300+ worldwide locations at once, rather than from just your own connection. If every location fails to reach it, the outage is real and affects everyone; if only a few locations fail while most load normally, the problem is local to those regions or networks rather than Cloudflare being fully down. A single refresh from your own browser can never make that distinction, because it only ever tests from one vantage point on one network.

Yes. HostTracker lets you add any URL — including third-party services you depend on, not just your own website — as a monitored target, and notifies you automatically the moment it becomes unreachable. Before sending an alert, HostTracker re-verifies a failure from multiple locations in its 300+-location network, so you're notified about real, confirmed outages rather than a single location's momentary blip. The free plan checks two monitors every 30 minutes indefinitely at no cost; paid plans check as often as once a minute, with alerts available through SMS, email, voice call, and several messenger apps.

Not necessarily, and this distinction matters a lot. If your site routes traffic through Cloudflare (as a CDN, DNS provider, or both) and Cloudflare has an incident, your origin server can be completely healthy while visitors still can't reach your site, because the request never gets past Cloudflare's edge. This is why a Cloudflare-caused outage can look identical to a real server-side outage from a visitor's perspective, but the fix (waiting for Cloudflare to resolve it) is completely different from a server-side fix. Checking both your site directly and Cloudflare's own status helps you tell which layer actually has the problem.

Because Cloudflare operates shared edge infrastructure that a very large share of the internet routes through for CDN, DNS, and security services, a single incident in Cloudflare's network can simultaneously affect every site that depends on the specific data center, service, or configuration involved — even though those sites have nothing else in common and are run by completely unrelated companies. This concentration is also what makes Cloudflare incidents so visible: instead of one site reporting a problem, social media fills with reports from many unrelated sites at once, which is often the first real-world signal that the issue is upstream rather than isolated.