Articles tagged "outage"

The November 2025 Cloudflare outage took down Downdetector, a real-time outage monitoring service, due to its key dependency on Cloudflare. Despite being built with a multi-region and multi-cloud architecture, Downdetector relies on Cloudflare for DNS, CDN, and Bot Protection. This decision is drive

Cloudflare's latest outage, caused by a global configuration change, highlights the dangers of such changes and the need for staged rollouts. This incident is part of a pattern of global configuration errors causing large outages, emphasizing the importance of careful planning and implementation.