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Cloudflare Network Glitch Disrupts Major Sites Worldwide as Recovery Begins

Engineers are investigating an internal service degradation that produced widespread 500 errors across customer sites.

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FILE - Lava lamps are seen through a lobby window at the headquarters of Cloudflare in San Francisco, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
The X app icon on a smartphone in this illustration taken October 27, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

Overview

  • Cloudflare acknowledged issues at 11:48 UTC, citing widespread 500 errors that also knocked its Dashboard and API offline.
  • Services that rely on Cloudflare—including X, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Spotify, Canva and popular games—were intermittently inaccessible with error pages and failed logins.
  • Outage tracker Downdetector was itself impacted yet still recorded thousands of complaints, with reports for X peaking around 10,000.
  • Cloudflare reports partial recovery and warns of elevated error rates during remediation, while saying there is no evidence of a security breach.
  • The disruption coincided with scheduled maintenance at some data centers without a confirmed link, highlighting concentration risks after recent AWS and Azure incidents as root-cause analysis continues.