Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike
4 days ago
- #Cloudflare
- #Internet Outage
- #Configuration Error
- Cloudflare outage caused widespread Internet disruptions, affecting platforms like X and ChatGPT.
- The issue was resolved after a fix was implemented, but some customers may still experience dashboard issues.
- Initial cause was an 'internal service degradation', later identified as a configuration file error.
- The configuration file grew too large, causing a crash in the traffic-handling software system.
- No evidence of malicious activity; services expected to normalize within hours.