Is Cloudflare down?
Updated Oct 08, 2026 15:40 UTC. StatusBird re-checks Cloudflare's status page every 2 minutes.
- Current state
- Major
- Changed
- Oct 05, 2026 16:34 UTC
- Held for
- 2 days 23 hours
Cloudflare is currently reporting a major outage as of Oct 08, 2026 15:40 UTC; this is an active incident affecting users. StatusBird reads Cloudflare's status page every 2 minutes and, on the Pro plan, alerts subscribers by SMS, email, Slack, Teams or Discord within that cycle; the free email alert on this page covers major and critical outages with no account.
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Cloudflare uptime and incident history
30-day uptime, from checks every 2 minutes.
Over the past 90 days StatusBird recorded 4 major or critical Cloudflare incidents totalling 4038 minutes of downtime, for 96.88% availability and a D reliability grade, across 64,661 independent checks. Full history: Cloudflare reliability report.
Cloudflare's 90-day uptime of 96.88% is below the Infrastructure category average of 99.21% across the 4 services StatusBird monitors in that category.
Cloudflare risk in the next 24 hours
StatusBird's stack risk model puts the chance of any Cloudflare degradation in the next 24 hours at 90% (high) and the chance of a major or critical outage at 90% (high). It is scored every 10 minutes from four inputs: how often Cloudflare has had an episode over the last 180 days, whether it has had one in the last 24 hours or 7 days, how often its degradations turn into major outages, and whether the infrastructure it runs on is having trouble right now.
- reports minor issues near-continuously (non-operational 100% of the last 30 days); degraded is its normal state
- 6 major outages in the last 180 days
- a major outage in the last 7 days; outages cluster
- major incident in progress
Scored Oct 08, 2026 15:36 UTC, and rescored every 10 minutes. Method: how StatusBird measures and scores.
How do I get notified when Cloudflare has an outage?
Three options, from free to full coverage. Plan details are as published on StatusBird's pricing page and www.cloudflarestatus.com as of October 08, 2026.
- Free email alert on this page. The form above emails you when Cloudflare enters a major or critical outage and again when it recovers. No account, no card.
- A StatusBird account. The free plan monitors 1 service with a live dashboard and a day-after incident digest. Pro ($29/month) checks all 84 services every 2 minutes and alerts by SMS, email, Slack, Teams or Discord, with quiet hours and per-service thresholds; Business is $49/month and Agency $99/month. Create a free account.
- Cloudflare's own status page. www.cloudflarestatus.com offers the subscription options on www.cloudflarestatus.com, where available. It is the official record and worth subscribing to alongside any monitor; it updates when Cloudflare confirms an incident.
Full guide: Best downtime alert services for online store owners (2026).
About Cloudflare
CDN, DNS, and security platform used by millions of websites. Cloudflare outages can take your storefront offline or severely degrade performance for all visitors.
StatusBird monitors Cloudflare every 2 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. When an outage or degradation is detected, StatusBird sends instant alerts so you can act before your customers notice. The 30-day uptime percentage and incident history above reflect live data from our monitoring network.
Cloudflare last five incidents
Every non-operational episode StatusBird measured in the last 90 days, newest first, labelled by the worst status reached. The availability figures above count major and critical outages only.
| Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Worst status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 2026 15:42 | Ongoing | 89 days 23 hours so far | major |
1 episode in total over the last 90 days, 1 of them major or critical.
What to do when Cloudflare is down
First, confirm it is actually Cloudflare and not your store. Then contain the damage and communicate. Here is exactly how to do that during a Cloudflare outage, plus what usually breaks and how long incidents tend to last.
How do I confirm Cloudflare is actually down?
Check two independent sources before changing anything in your store. First, StatusBird's live Cloudflare status page, which is based on independent checks every 2 minutes. Second, Cloudflare's own status page at www.cloudflarestatus.com. If the official page still shows green, do not assume you are wrong: vendors often acknowledge incidents well after they start. If both look clean, the problem is more likely your store's configuration or a specific integration.
What does a Cloudflare outage look like?
- Visitors see Cloudflare error pages like 502 Bad Gateway, 522 Connection Timed Out, or 500 with Cloudflare branding
- Your domain fails to resolve or resolves intermittently
- Traffic in your analytics drops to near zero across all pages at once
- The Cloudflare dashboard and API are unreachable or erroring
- Several unrelated services you use are down simultaneously
What breaks in 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.
For context, StatusBird's independent monitoring recorded 2 major Cloudflare incidents in the last 90 days, with an average duration of 1 hour 11 minutes. Details are on the Cloudflare reliability page.
What to do during the outage
- Check cloudflarestatus.com to see which data centers or services are affected.
- If only the proxy is affected, temporarily switch your DNS records from proxied (orange cloud) to DNS only (grey cloud) so traffic goes straight to your origin.
- Post a notice on your social channels and Google Business profile so customers know the store is temporarily unreachable.
- Avoid making DNS or configuration changes mid-incident that you will have to unwind later, unless bypassing the proxy is your deliberate fix.
- After recovery, re-enable the proxy and confirm SSL, firewall rules, and caching behave normally again.
These steps follow the same logic Google codifies in its Site Reliability Engineering chapter on managing incidents: establish what is actually happening, contain the damage, and communicate clearly while the incident is still running.
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.
After the outage
Once Cloudflare recovers, verify the affected workflows end to end rather than trusting the status page. Note the start and end times while they are fresh: if you are on a paid Cloudflare plan with an SLA, documented downtime is what a service credit claim is built on. See how to claim SLA credits for the process.
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.
This playbook was published separately until September 2026. It now lives here, alongside the live Cloudflare status it applies to.
Cloudflare status FAQ
Is Cloudflare down right now?
Yes. Cloudflare is reporting a major state in StatusBird's independent monitoring. That state began Oct 05, 2026 at 16:34 UTC and has lasted 2 days 23 hours. Last checked Oct 08, 2026 at 15:40 UTC.
How often does Cloudflare go down?
StatusBird recorded 4 major or critical Cloudflare incidents in the last 90 days, totalling 4038 minutes of downtime. That is 96.88% availability and a D reliability grade.
What is the chance Cloudflare has a problem in the next 24 hours?
StatusBird's stack risk model puts the chance of any Cloudflare degradation in the next 24 hours at 90% (high) and the chance of a major or critical outage at 90% (high). It is scored every 10 minutes from four inputs: how often Cloudflare has had an episode over the last 180 days, whether it has had one in the last 24 hours or 7 days, how often its degradations turn into major outages, and whether the infrastructure it runs on is having trouble right now.
What should I do when Cloudflare goes down?
Confirm the outage is on Cloudflare's side rather than in your store, protect whatever the outage is breaking, and tell affected customers before they find out the hard way. The full step-by-step playbook for a Cloudflare outage is on this page, under 'What to do when Cloudflare is down'.
How do I get notified when Cloudflare goes down?
Use the free email alert form on this page, which needs no account and covers major and critical outages. Or open a StatusBird account: the free plan monitors 1 service with a next-day digest, and Pro at $29 a month checks all 84 services every 2 minutes and alerts by SMS, email, Slack, Teams or Discord, or subscribe to Cloudflare's own status page at www.cloudflarestatus.com.
What should I do when Cloudflare goes down? The full playbook is on this page.
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"Every figure we publish comes from the same 2-minute checks that trigger our customers' alerts. We publish the data exactly as we measured it, and anyone is free to cite it."
Sydney Murphy, founder of StatusBird
Cite this data: StatusBird monitoring data, https://statusbird.io/status/cloudflare, accessed October 08, 2026. See the methodology for how these numbers are measured.
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