Overview
- Platforms including X, ChatGPT, Spotify, Canva and League of Legends saw widespread errors as Cloudflare reported a global service degradation.
- CTO Dane Knecht took responsibility and said a failure in a bot‑mitigation service was triggered by a routine configuration change.
- Cloudflare said error rates for Access and WARP returned to pre‑incident levels and services are being monitored for residual issues.
- Engineers temporarily disabled or reactivated features in specific regions during remediation, including restoring WARP access in London.
- Outage trackers showed simultaneous spikes across services, renewing concerns about internet reliance on a few infrastructure providers.