Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht addressed the widespread outage on social media, explaining the reason behind it on his X handle.

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“I won’t mince words: earlier today we failed our customers and the broader Internet when a problem in @Cloudflare network impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on us. The sites, businesses, and organizations that rely on Cloudflare depend on us being available and I apologize for the impact that we caused.
Transparency about what happened matters, and we plan to share a breakdown with more details in a few hours. In short, a latent bug in a service underpinning our bot mitigation capability started to crash after a routine configuration change we made. That cascaded into a broad degradation to our network and other services. This was not an attack.
That issue, impact it caused, and time to resolution is unacceptable. Work is already underway to make sure it does not happen again, but I know it caused real pain today. The trust our customers place in us is what we value the most and we are going to do what it takes to earn that back.”
Today Cloudflare outage disrupted major platforms like ChatGPT, X, Uber, Canva, and some crypto services, leaving users with 500 Internal Server Errors. Cloudflare traced the issue to an oversized configuration file that affected its network. A fix was implemented by around 9:42 a.m. ET, leading to a gradual recovery, although some users faced ongoing issues. Cloudflare confirmed the outage was due to an internal configuration error, not a cyberattack.
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