In the last 90 days, Cloudflare had 2 major incidents totaling 15 hours 10 minutes of downtime, per StatusBird's independent 2-minute monitoring. That works out to 99.26% availability and a B reliability grade.
Short-term numbers only tell part of the story, so below is the full data, how Cloudflare compares to its category, and how to track future incidents without watching a status page all day.
Cloudflare outage history: the last 90 days
| Metric (90 days, as of July 2026) | Value |
|---|---|
| Availability | 99.26% |
| Reliability grade | B |
| Major incidents | 2 |
| Total major-outage downtime | 15 hours 10 minutes |
| Average incident duration | 7 hours 35 minutes |
| Most recent major incident | April 29, 2026 |
| Checks in window | 61,606 |
Among the 4 infrastructure services StatusBird monitors, Cloudflare ranks number 4 for 90-day availability.
Does a Cloudflare outage affect your store?
When Cloudflare has problems, your storefront can become unreachable even though your origin server is perfectly healthy, because customer requests never make it past the edge. Visitors typically see Cloudflare-branded 5xx error pages such as 502 or 522, or DNS lookups fail entirely if the outage hits Cloudflare DNS. Checkout, product pages, and any subdomain proxied through Cloudflare all fail together, and third-party services you rely on may be down at the same time since many of them also run behind Cloudflare.
How can I track Cloudflare outages?
Three ways, from slowest to fastest. Cloudflare's official status page at www.cloudflarestatus.com is authoritative but often acknowledges incidents late. StatusBird's live Cloudflare status page reflects independent checks every 2 minutes. Fastest is an alert: StatusBird sends SMS, email, or Slack notifications the moment Cloudflare's status changes, so you find out before customer emails do.
Frequently asked questions
My store shows a Cloudflare 502 or 522 error. Is my hosting down or is Cloudflare down?
A Cloudflare-branded error page means the request reached Cloudflare, so start by checking cloudflarestatus.com. If Cloudflare reports an incident, your origin is likely fine; if Cloudflare is healthy, a 522 usually means Cloudflare cannot reach your origin server and the problem is on your hosting side.
Can I bypass Cloudflare to get my store back online during their outage?
Often yes, by setting the affected DNS records to DNS only mode so traffic skips the Cloudflare proxy. Be aware you lose Cloudflare's caching, bot protection, and possibly SSL termination while bypassed, and if the outage affects Cloudflare DNS itself, changes may be slow to take effect.
How this data is measured
StatusBird checks Cloudflare's status every 2 minutes, around the clock, independently of the vendor. The availability figure counts major and critical outages only; minor degradation is excluded so numbers are not skewed by vendors that report small blips near-continuously. Grades run from A+ to F. See the live numbers on the Cloudflare reliability page and current status on the Cloudflare status page, or browse all 84 service grades.
Know before your customers do
StatusBird monitors Cloudflare and 83 other services online stores depend on, plus your own storefront, every 2 minutes. When something goes down you get an SMS, email, or Slack alert with plain-English context, usually before the official status page catches up. Start monitoring free, no card required for the free plan.