Cloudflare experienced major disruptions on Tuesday, causing outages on popular platforms like X and several major websites, according to its official status page.
Cloudflare provides core internet infrastructure and tools that secure websites against cyber attacks and keep them running smoothly even under heavy traffic.
Users received an alert about an internal server error on Cloudflare’s network, with instructions to try again after a few minutes.
“Cloudflare is aware of and investigating an issue that may impact multiple customers: widespread 500 errors, Cloudflare Dashboard and API failures as well,” the company said in a new update.
“We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this issue. More updates will follow soon,” it added.
In the latest updates, the company said: “We are seeing services recovering, but customers may still see higher than normal error rates as we continue recovery efforts.”
Prior to this post it said: “Cloudflare is experiencing an internal service degradation. Some services may be intermittently affected. We are focused on restoring service. We will update as soon as we can resolve this.”
Tracking website Down Detector itself was also affected by technical problems.
Social media platform X was also offline for thousands of users worldwide.
NetBlocks, a cybersecurity watchdog, also confirmed the global problem, saying that “the incident is not related to internet disruptions or country-level filtering.”
This is a developing story and will be updated with more details.
