Cloudflare goes down again: Users report facing issues with multiple apps

Update: The company has confirmed that the outage has been resolved.

Cloudflare’s services are experiencing another outage, with users worldwide reporting issues accessing multiple apps. The blackout is affecting several websites, including Zerodha, Canva and Downdetector, and has left many people unable to use critical online services. The company's service status page noted: "Cloudflare is investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs. Customers using the Dashboard / Cloudflare APIs are impacted as requests might fail and/or errors may be displayed. We are continuing to investigate this issue."


During the outage, the company said: "A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. We are continuing to monitor the results."

Cloudflare's status page also noted: "Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary."

The company's CTO Dane Knecht took to microblogging site X (formerly Twitter) to confirm: "We are aware of the issue impacting the availability of Cloudflare’s network. It was not an attack; root cause was disabling some logging to help mitigate this week’s React CVE. Will share full details in a blog post today. Sites should be back online now, but I understand the frustration this causes and the work being."

During the outage several users also shared reports and memes about the latest Cloudflare outage. The outage affected apps like Canva, Zerodha and Groww.

This is the second time in a month when the IT infrastructre company faced a major outage. Last month, the outage affected major platforms including ChatGPT, Spotify and US President Donald Trump's social media site Truth Social.

Cloudflare is an important for the internet as it supports much of the traffic. It helps websites stay online during heavy traffic and protects them from cyberattacks. It sits between users and websites, improving speed and security. As many businesses depend on Cloudflare, even a single issue in its system can cause many unrelated websites to go down at the same time.

(Developing story)