Cloudflare Hit by Major Global Outage — X, OpenAI, Canva and Thousands of Sites Go Down

A major Cloudflare outage has disrupted a huge portion of the internet today, taking down or partially breaking thousands of websites across the globe — including ours. Starting shortly before noon, users began reporting widespread 500 errors, preventing pages from loading properly or blocking access entirely.

Among the affected platforms are some of the biggest names online: X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI, Canva, League of Legends, and even Downdetector, the very site people normally rely on to track outages. Yes — the outage is so large that even the outage tracker went down.

Cloudflare has acknowledged the incident and is actively investigating. While we still don’t know the full technical cause, here’s everything that has been confirmed so far.

A Global Outage Confirmed by Cloudflare

The first official alert appeared at 11:48 UTC on the Cloudflare Status page, where the company reported a major internal service degradation affecting numerous customers. Moments later, a wave of HTTP 500 errors began appearing across thousands of websites.

“Cloudflare is aware of an incident affecting multiple customers. Our teams are actively investigating the root cause.”

As reports surged worldwide, Cloudflare began posting incremental updates throughout the afternoon.

Timeline of the Outage

11:48 UTC — Initial report

Cloudflare confirms service degradation and begins investigating.

12:21 UTC — Early signs of recovery

A partial improvement is detected, but error rates remain high for many users.

13:04 UTC — WARP access disabled in London

To reduce strain, Cloudflare temporarily disables WARP traffic in the London region.

13:09 UTC — Issue identified

Cloudflare announces it has isolated the cause and is rolling out a fix.

13:13 UTC — Access & WARP returning to normal

Error rates drop significantly for Access and WARP-related services.

13:35 UTC — Application services partially restored

Web application performance begins stabilizing.

14:34 UTC — Dashboard access restored

Administrators regain access to Cloudflare’s management dashboard.

14:42 UTC — Fix fully deployed

Cloudflare declares the incident resolved.

14:57 UTC — Residual issues remain

Some users still experience login trouble or dashboard inconsistencies. Cloudflare continues monitoring.

What Happens Next?

Cloudflare has not yet published the full post-mortem, but one is expected soon. Given the scale of the disruption and the number of impacted services, the root cause will likely attract significant attention from security experts, network engineers, and major tech companies.

For now, Cloudflare says its systems are stable again — but minor disruptions may still occur as global traffic normalizes.

Conclusion

This outage highlights once again how much of the modern web depends on Cloudflare’s infrastructure. When a company this central experiences even a brief failure, the ripple effect is immediate and worldwide. While services appear to be recovering, the full explanation behind today’s disruption is still pending — and millions of users are eagerly waiting for answers.