Overview
- Cloudflare reported an unusual traffic spike around 12:20 Paris time that caused errors across part of its network, degrading access to many websites and apps.
- Engineers deployed a fix at about 15:42 Paris time and declared the issue resolved, with continued monitoring for lingering errors and a post-incident review underway.
- Services affected included X, ChatGPT, Spotify, League of Legends, Canva and Grindr, with thousands of outage reports logged by Downdetector during the disruption.
- CTO Dane Knecht said a latent bug in one service surfaced after a routine configuration change, and the company emphasized there was no evidence of malicious activity.
- The scale of the impact reflects Cloudflare’s role in handling a large share of global web traffic—commonly cited at roughly 20%—a concentration that experts warn is a single point of failure.