Cloudflare, the invisible shield protecting roughly 20% of the entire web, is having a very bad day.

Right now, as you read this, dozens of Cloudflare datacenters around the globe are coughing, stuttering, or straight-up napping. Your favorite sites? Loading like it’s 1999. Your SaaS dashboard? Probably throwing 502s at you like confetti.

What's Happening?

According to the official Cloudflare Status page, core services like CDN/Cache, DNS, Workers, and Zero Trust remain largely operational. However, scattered partial outages are hitting datacenters in key regions:
Africa: Dar Es Salaam (DAR), Djibouti City (JIB), Kinshasa (FIH), Windhoek (WDH), and Lilongwe (LLW) are seeing intermittent issues.
Asia: Disruptions in Bandar Seri Begawan (BWN), Malé (MLE), Yerevan (EVN), Tarlac City (CRK), and Astana (NQZ).
Europe: A partial outage in Izmir (ADB).
Latin America & the Caribbean: Impacts in Arica (ARI), Bogotá (BOG), Caçador (CFC), Goiânia (GYN), Neuquén (NQN), Uberlândia (UDI), Vitoria (VIX), Campos dos Goytacães (CAW), Cali (CLO), and La Paz (LPB).
Middle East: Baghdad (BGW), Basra (BSR), Najaf (NJF), and Nasiriyah (XNH).
North America: Detroit (DTW), Norfolk (ORF), and Anchorage (ANC).
Adding to the mix, Cloudflare's support portal is under degraded performance, leading to errors when viewing or responding to tickets. The company notes that customer support remains accessible via live chat for Business and Enterprise users, or the emergency phone line for Enterprise customers.415870 Cloudflare is also probing an unspecified issue that "may impact multiple customers," with more details expected soon.
Scheduled maintenance is underway in U.S. hubs like Los Angeles (LAX), Miami (MIA), Atlanta (ATL), Chicago (ORD), Newark (EWR), and Guatemala City (GUA), which could contribute to minor latency spikes or traffic rerouting – especially for direct peering customers.
Broader Impact
These aren't isolated blips. Recent reports highlight a pattern of turbulence for Cloudflare in 2025, including a March global outage lasting over an hour due to storage failures.827cb4 User-submitted alerts on platforms like StatusGator show seven outage reports in the last 24 hours, though most have since resolved.7aa3ee Downdetector, meanwhile, shows no widespread user complaints at the moment, suggesting the issues are more targeted than total takedowns.e6e82d
For web admins and devs, this means potential slowdowns or error rates for sites proxied through affected nodes. If your traffic routes through these areas, keep an eye on real-time metrics via Cloudflare's dashboard.
What to Do Next
Monitor Closely: Bookmark Cloudflare's Status page for live updates – they've promised more info shortly.
Workarounds: Reroute traffic if possible, or lean on backup CDNs. Enterprise folks, hit up that live chat.
Stay Tuned: We'll update this post as Cloudflare rolls out fixes. In the meantime, if you're feeling the pinch, drop a comment below – solidarity in the outage trenches.
Cloudflare's been a web reliability rock for years, but today's a reminder: even giants glitch. Fingers crossed for a swift resolution.