If you’ve had internet problems this morning, you’re not alone. The infrastructure company Cloudflare has been affected what we call it “Print 500 errors, (with) dashboard and API neither.” Fortunately, these issues were resolved a few hours later, but there was still internet chaos on the US East Coast that day.
“Cloudflare is aware of and is investigating an issue that may affect multiple customers,” the company wrote in an update around 7 a.m. ET. “We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem.”
This morning at 9:50 a.m. ET, Cloudflare said the issue has been resolved. The company’s CTO, Dane Knecht, published it
Cloudflare is a leading Internet platform that provides networking and security products to ISPs, Fortune 500 companies and others. This includes edge computing and tools that protect websites from cyber attacks and help them stay online during Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks and peak traffic periods.
The problem affects many websites, including X, OpenAI, Spotify, Letterboxd and, ironically, Downdetector, a website that can usually tell you which other websites are down. Affected websites may display a message saying “Internal server error on the Cloudflare network” and ask you to try again in a few minutes.
The live report has ended.7 updates
- Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at 10:03 AM EST Nathan Ingraham
Cloudflare’s CTO shared one Statement about XHe apologized and said the company would provide details of what happened later today. He also stressed that it is not an attack on the company’s systems.
“I won’t mince words: today we disappointed our customers and the entire Internet when a problem on Cloudflare’s network affected large amounts of traffic that depend on us,” he said. “The sites, businesses and organizations that rely on Cloudflare depend on our availability and I apologize for the impact we have caused.”
- Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at 09:47 EST Nathan Ingraham
Cloudflare says: “We believe the incident has now been resolved”
This morning’s Cloudflare outage appears to have been resolved, at least according to the company. The latest update on the situation, at 9:42 a.m. ET, said: “We believe the incident has now been resolved” and more outages are being monitored. I hope everyone can continue their day on the internet!
- Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at 9:13 AM EST Nathan Ingraham
I am currently seeing double.
The latest status updates from Cloudflare.
- Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at 08:46 EST Nathan Ingraham
The latest update isn’t exactly the biggest. Cloudflare “continues to work to restore service to Application Services customers.” Despite the recent update, many sites still show the error screen, including X (at least that’s the case here in New England).
- Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at 08:25 ESTteve Dent
Downdetector shows that X, Spotify and other sites are gradually returning to normal
Downdetector, which was offline less than half an hour ago, is now reporting that websites affected by the Cloudflare outage, such as X and Spotify, are back to normal. However, it turns out that X is still unavailable to several Engadget editors.
The crash detector graph for X (Twitter) shows the site returning to normal.
- Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at 08.16 ESTteve Dent
Cloudflare wrote that “the issue has been identified.”
Cloudflare said at 8:13 a.m. ET that “the issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.” The company added: “We made changes that allowed Cloudflare Access and WARP to recover. Error rates for Access and WARP users have returned to pre-incident levels.”
(WARP is a service that gives customers instant access to Cloudflare.)
- Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at 8:01am EST John Falcone
Cloudflare confirmed an “internal service downgrade”.Cloudflare’s internal status page confirmed an outage at 6:48 a.m. ET.
Cloudflare is having problems.
