Cloudflare Goes Down, But A Fix Is In And Chatgpt And X Are Back...

If you've tried logging into social media or want to write a quick review of the movie you've just watched, there's a good chance you've run into an error message. That's because internet cybersecurity and network company Cloudflare has gone down.

Cloudflare clarifies on the Cloudflare system status website that "The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented", though it will be some time until we hear why this happened (assuming we ever will).

Cloudflare goes on to state, "We are continuing to work towards restoring other services", and that access has reportedly been restored in London.

Now that things appear to have resolved, Cloudflare has told TechRadar:

"Many of Cloudflare's services experienced a significant outage today beginning around 11:20 UTC. It was fully resolved at 14:30 UTC. The root cause of the outage was a configuration file that is automatically generated to manage threat traffic. The file grew beyond an expected size of entries and triggered a crash in the software system that handles traffic for a number of Cloudflare's services."

"To be clear, there is no evidence that this was the result of an attack or caused by malicious activity. We expect that some Cloudflare services will be briefly degraded as traffic naturally spikes post incident but we expect all services to return to normal in the next few hours. A detailed explanation will be posted soon on blog.cloudflare.com. Given the importance of Cloudflare's services, any outage is unacceptable. We apologize to our customers and the Internet in general for letting you down today. We will learn from today's incident and improve."

Cloudflare's latest update to the system status website reports it is currently monitoring the situation for further issues, after an earlier update reported on a fix being rolled out. That means we should hope to see Cloudflare services coming back online.

The 'Network' section of this website, which previously said "offline" has now been swapped to "degraded performance", which is a definite upgrade.

Ah, we were so close. While some sites are back online, such as ChatGPT and X, with Copilot back online, too, there are still some reports of dashboard issues.

But, Cloudflare suggests that an implemented fix has sorted things out for most people.

Source: PC Gamer