Cloudflare, an American technology company and key service provider for numerous websites and apps, experienced what it says was a “minor service issue”, on Monday morning in the United States. The company said that it was not an outage as previously reported by some media outlets.
UPDATE: On Tuesday, a spokesperson from the Cloudflare emailed w.media and clarified, “Cloudflare did not experience any outage this week: as per its shared logs, there was a very minor service issue that was shared for the purpose of transparency, but was in no way an outage and did not impact customers.”
Cloudflare, which handles internet security and traffic management for sites worldwide, confirmed the service issue on its website, and said that it was working on a fix. But it warned that “some customers using Cloudflare Data Loss Prevention (DLP) suite may see intermittent errors for traffic in this datacenter.”
Cloudflare reported its system status on their website which at the time of initially publishing this article stood as follows:
Cloudflare plays a critical role in keeping websites online and secure, protecting them from cyberattacks such as Distributed Denial of service mitigation (DDoS), and ICANN-accredited domain registration which ensures users receive content quickly. Its tools are used by both small sites on free plans and major platforms, including X, which rely on its paid services.
According to Downdector there are now no current problems with Cloudflare services. The cause of the service issue remains unknown, and the full scope of affected websites is still unclear.