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Incident history
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About Cloudflare outages
Written by the HostTracker monitoring team · updated from live probe data.
Cloudflare sits in front of a huge share of the internet as a CDN, DNS provider, and DDoS protection layer - which means a Cloudflare incident rarely just takes down cloudflare.com itself, it can simultaneously make thousands of unrelated websites and services that route through Cloudflare's edge network unreachable or degraded at the same time. This is what makes Cloudflare outages distinctive: the visible symptom is often "half the internet seems broken" rather than a single site being down, and it's easy to mistakenly blame your own site or a different provider when the real cause is upstream at the network edge. Checking Cloudflare's own status directly, alongside your own site, helps separate "my server is fine but Cloudflare's edge is having an incident" from a problem you actually control.
Common causes of Cloudflare downtime
Edge network or routing incidents at specific Cloudflare data centers, which can affect users in some regions while others are unaffected
DNS resolution issues on Cloudflare's authoritative DNS service, which can make any site using Cloudflare DNS appear to vanish even though the origin server is healthy
Configuration or software deployment issues on Cloudflare's global network, which by design can have very wide-reaching, fast-propagating impact
DDoS mitigation systems misfiring under attack conditions, occasionally blocking legitimate traffic along with malicious traffic
Not sure whether it's Cloudflare or your own connection? Read the full breakdown in our website down checker guide for a general walkthrough of diagnosing any outage, from DNS failures to expired certificates.
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Questions people ask during an outage
The live probe run on this page tests cloudflare.com from a broad sample of HostTracker's 300+-location monitoring network - many independent networks at the same moment, rather than 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.
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