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Cloudflare down for several users globally; OpenAI, Perplexity among websites affected

Cloudflare suffered an outage on Tuesday.

Updated on: Nov 18, 2025 06:59 PM IST
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Cloudflare suffered an outage on Tuesday, disrupting services for thousands of users across websites that rely on the company’s network infrastructure.

Cloudflare blocks AI crawlers; Safeguards publishers
Cloudflare blocks AI crawlers; Safeguards publishers

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“Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which impacts multiple customers: Widespread 500 errors, Cloudflare Dashboard and API also failing. We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly,” said Cloudflare in a statement.

“We are seeing services recover, but customers may continue to observe higher-than-normal error rates as we continue remediation efforts,” Cloudflare stated later.

Websites affected by the outage included X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI/ChatGPT, League of Legends, Spotify, Canva, Perplexity, Gemini, Grindr, and LetterboxD.

Also Read | X, OpenAI, Canva: Full list of websites hit by Cloudflare outage

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Cloudfare is the CDN provider for the platform, Canva said in a statement, adding that was resulting in Canva not loading for some users.

"Please refer to https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/,” Canva said on its status page.

11,000 reports on Cloudflare outage

According to DownDetector, complaints with the social media platform peaked at 5:09 pm, with over 11,000 reports.

As the interruption spread to other websites that depend on Cloudflare's infrastructure services, visitors encountered a “internal server error on Cloudflare's network” and were instructed to “please try again in a few minutes.”

Also Read | Is X down right now? Users report issues amid Cloudflare, OpenAI outages

Cloudflare stated that its workers are “continuing to investigate this issue” as of 7:03 AM ET, despite the fact that even its status page appears to be malfunctioning and losing its CSS design.

 
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