On Tuesday, a significant outage struck Cloudflare’s network infrastructure, disrupting services for thousands of users across the internet. The company has officially acknowledged the incident, confirming that they are investigating “widespread 500 errors” that are also impacting the Cloudflare Dashboard and API.
The tech giant confirmed they are tackling a critical issue resulting in widespread 500 errors for multiple customers. The outage is severe enough to impact Cloudflare’s own Dashboard and API. Engineers are currently assessing the full scope of the impact to restore stability.leading to widespread disruptions across the internet and leaving thousands of users unable to access major platforms like OpenAI/ChatGPT, X (formerly Twitter), Spotify, and Canva.
According to outage tracking website DownDetector, reports of service problems with Cloudflare peaked at over 11,000 complaints in a single hour, signaling the immediate and massive scale of the failure.
