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About Cloudflare
Cloudflare is a core internet backbone provider, running a CDN, DDoS protection, DNS resolution, Workers (edge compute), R2 (S3-compatible object storage), Pages (JAMstack hosting), Zero Trust (SSE/SASE), and the 1.1.1.1 public resolver. Because so much of the web proxies through Cloudflare, an outage can feel like the whole internet is down. Incidents are scoped per data center (Cloudflare has hundreds of POPs globally) or per product. Customers frequently see "Error 1020" or "Error 521" pages during partial outages where Cloudflare cannot reach origin servers. BGP-related incidents at Cloudflare have taken down unrelated sites that just happen to use Cloudflare DNS.
The official Cloudflare status page is available as a reference. Official pages are useful, but they can lag behind real outages by minutes or hours. Independent monitoring catches issues faster.
What outages typically look like on Cloudflare
Cloud platforms like Cloudflare rarely fail in obvious, all-or-nothing ways. The more common pattern is regional degradation: one availability zone or geographic region runs at half capacity while the rest of the platform serves traffic normally. Status pages often show green because the aggregate health check is still passing, even when a customer's specific workload is degraded.
Independent monitoring helps catch these silent regional incidents earlier. Visual Sentinel checks cloudflare.com from EU and US simultaneously every 60 seconds, so a US-only outage surfaces as a clear divergence between regions, not as ambient noise. We also measure TLS handshake time and DNS resolution time as separate signals, which often drift upward 10-30 minutes before the underlying outage hits hard failure.
Common signs Cloudflare is having issues
- HTTP 503 (service unavailable) or 504 (gateway timeout) responses creeping into normal browsing
- Sustained response-time drift above the Cloudflare baseline (usually a precursor to hard failures)
- TLS handshake delays during peak hours that resolve at quieter times
- Regional disparity: one geography returns errors while another stays healthy
What to do when Cloudflare is degraded
If Cloudflare is degraded, check whether the issue is global or regional first. A regional outage often resolves within 15-45 minutes once provider engineering notices the imbalance and shifts traffic. A global outage usually correlates with a status-page incident within the first 5-10 minutes; if status is still green but cloudflare.com is broken from multiple regions, treat it as a real incident and check social channels for community reports.
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