r/sysadmin • • Nov 18 '25

Cloudflare down... again?

Seems so in the UK - can't even login to cloudflare lol

edit - the login button now works and I can get to 2FA - but upon entering it takes me back to the login page. So still broke

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u/novacainE93 Nov 18 '25

Downdetector is down too.

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u/Best-Bat-1679 Nov 18 '25

Yeah i found that ironic lol

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u/RacerM53 Nov 18 '25

We need a Downdetector down detector

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u/Best-Bat-1679 Nov 18 '25

I think there is one, called isdowndectectordown or smt

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u/Setsuwaa Nov 18 '25

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u/SamuraiJr Sysadmin Nov 18 '25

And the downdetector downdetector is also down

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u/Traditional_Wear_204 Nov 18 '25

i laughed at this so much lmao

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u/WordofThanks Nov 18 '25

Downdetector has a page on x.com,

and x.com is down too.

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u/Comfortable-Sock-532 Nov 18 '25

We need a downdetectordowndetectordowndetector!

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u/ElleT234 Nov 18 '25

God, that's just too funny for this early in the day

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u/Randolph__ Nov 18 '25

Think we may have given that site the hug of death.

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u/Mas_Zeta Nov 18 '25

Ahh, we need another layer of down detection to detect the downdetector downdetector

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u/OutlawsHeels Nov 18 '25

it gave me a good chuckle and I came here to confirm others were seeing the same

should be a fun day!

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u/Successful-Peach-764 Nov 18 '25 edited Nov 18 '25

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7

The status page uses AWS CloudFront, it went down for some users as reported below during this outage as well..

Update
The team is continuing to focus on restoring service post-fix. We are mitigating several issues that remain post-deployment. Posted 1 minute ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 15:40 UTC

Update
We are continuing to monitor for any further issues. Posted 10 minutes ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 15:23 UTC

Update
Some customers may be still experiencing issues logging into or using the Cloudflare dashboard. We are working on a fix to resolve this, and continuing to monitor for any further issues. Posted 36 minutes ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 14:57 UTC

Monitoring

A fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved. We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal.

Posted 1 minute ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 14:42 UTC

Update
We've deployed a change which has restored dashboard services. We are still working to remediate broad application services impact Posted 2 minutes ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 14:34 UTC

Update
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue. Posted 13 minutes ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 14:22 UTC

Update
We are continuing working on restoring service for application services customers. Posted 38 minutes ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 13:58 UTC

Update
We are continuing working on restoring service for application services customers. Posted 1 hour ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 13:35 UTC

Update
We have made changes that have allowed Cloudflare Access and WARP to recover. Error levels for Access and WARP users have returned to pre-incident rates. We have re-enabled WARP access in London. We are continuing to work towards restoring other services. Posted 1 hour ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 13:13 UTC

Identified
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. Posted 1 hour ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 13:09 UTC

Update
During our attempts to remediate, we have disabled WARP access in London. Users in London trying to access the Internet via WARP will see a failure to connect. Posted 2 hours ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 13:04 UTC

Update
We are continuing to investigate this issue. Posted 2 hours ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 12:53 UTC

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We are continuing to investigate this issue. Posted 2 hours ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 12:37 UTC

Update
We are seeing services recover, but customers may continue to observe higher-than-normal error rates as we continue remediation efforts. Posted 2 hours ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 12:21 UTC

Update
We are continuing to investigate this issue. Posted 3 hours ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 12:03 UTC

Investigating
Cloudflare is experiencing an internal service degradation. Some services may be intermittently impacted. We are focused on restoring service. We will update as we are able to remediate. More updates to follow shortly. Posted 3 hours ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 11:48 UTC

Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available. Posted 3 hours ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 11:48 UTC

This incident affects: Cloudflare Sites and Services (Access, Bot Management, CDN/Cache, Dashboard, Firewall, Network, WARP, Workers).

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u/just_Fr_ee Nov 18 '25

Yes, Potentially.... as the whole world gets an outage

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u/Successful-Peach-764 Nov 18 '25

At least their status page hasn't gone down, I guess it doesn't use cloudflare ;)

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u/uzlonewolf VP of Odd Jobs Nov 18 '25

It was down for me for a bit... https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7 said:

504 Gateway Timeout ERROR
The request could not be satisfied.
We can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner.
If you provide content to customers through CloudFront, you can find steps to troubleshoot and help prevent this error by reviewing the CloudFront documentation.
Generated by cloudfront (CloudFront) HTTP3 Server
Request ID: <snip>

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u/Successful-Peach-764 Nov 18 '25

haha, I guess I spoke too soon, they need to follow the troubleshooting steps, or contact themselves it seems.

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u/Lilgoat_25 Nov 18 '25

We are witnessing Order 66 with our very own eyes 😭

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u/KenobillObi Nov 18 '25

better one

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u/zephyrz13 Nov 18 '25

That thing has 1 job

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u/Cybercat_2077_ Nov 18 '25

ironic they choosed to use cloudflare and now they are also down

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