Is Cloudflare Down?
Cloudflare is experiencing a partial outage.
Active incidents
Cloudflare components
What is Cloudflare?
Cloudflare is a globally distributed cloud platform providing content delivery, DNS hosting, DDoS mitigation, reverse proxying, and Zero Trust security services. Millions of websites and APIs sit behind Cloudflare, making it critical infrastructure for a large share of internet traffic. Developers and businesses rely on it for performance, uptime, and protection against malicious traffic.
Signs Cloudflare is having problems
- Visitors see a Cloudflare error page — typically a 502, 503, or 524 timeout — instead of the actual website, often showing the Cloudflare ray ID at the bottom.
- DNS lookups for domains using Cloudflare nameservers fail or return stale results, causing sites and APIs to become unreachable even when the origin server is healthy.
- Cloudflare Workers, Pages deployments, or R2 storage requests return errors or time out, breaking serverless functions and static asset delivery.
- SSL/TLS handshake errors appear for sites proxied through Cloudflare, or the Cloudflare dashboard itself becomes slow or inaccessible for account management.
Find out when your own services go down
You can check Cloudflare here — but a heartbeat monitor tells you the moment your API, website, or cron job stops responding, so you hear about your own downtime before your users do.
Frequently asked questions
How can I tell if Cloudflare is down?
Check the official Cloudflare status page at https://www.cloudflarestatus.com for real-time incident reports broken down by product and region. You can also test whether the issue is isolated to your origin or affects Cloudflare's network by bypassing the proxy temporarily and hitting your origin IP directly.
Where is the official Cloudflare status page?
The authoritative source is https://www.cloudflarestatus.com, maintained by Cloudflare. It lists active incidents, scheduled maintenance, and historical uptime per product, including CDN, DNS, Workers, R2, and Zero Trust services.
Is Cloudflare down everywhere or just in some regions?
Cloudflare operates a large number of data centers worldwide, so incidents are often regional rather than global. The status page at cloudflarestatus.com breaks down impact by geographic region and individual product, which helps determine whether a problem is widespread or confined to specific points of presence.
How do I get alerted when my own site goes down, not just Cloudflare?
Even when Cloudflare is healthy, your origin server or application can fail independently. A heartbeat monitor on CronJobPro can watch your endpoints and alert you the moment your site stops responding, so you know whether an outage is on your side or Cloudflare's side.
Not affiliated with or endorsed by Cloudflare. Status data is sourced from Cloudflare's official status page (www.cloudflarestatus.com); for critical incidents, always verify at the official source. All trademarks are property of their respective owners.