💨 Abstract

On Tuesday, a major outage at Cloudflare disrupted websites globally, including in Africa, Europe, and North America. The issue started around 13:30 SA time, with many sites showing HTTP 500 errors. Cloudflare's Dashboard and API were also affected, impacting developers and administrators. Downdetector, a platform for reporting outages, was briefly unavailable.

Courtesy: Garrin Lambley