What appears to be a glitch in Cloudflare’s global network is currently causing intermittent disruptions to website access around the world.
Users are reporting timeouts and error messages when attempting to load certain websites, many of which rely on Cloudflare for content delivery, performance optimisation, and security services.
Cloudflare has not disclosed the cause of the glitch or when it might be fully resolved but says its teams are actively investigating and monitoring the situation.
Interestingly, Cloudflare’s own status page appeared broken intermittently earlier, likely before it was switched to a third-party provider.
Cloudflare acknowledged the issue on its status page:
Cloudflare Global Network Experiencing IssuesUpdate - We are continuing to investigate this issue. Nov 18, 2025 - 12:21 UTCUpdate - We are continuing to investigate this issue. Nov 18, 2025 - 12:03 UTCInvestigating - 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. Nov 18, 2025 - 11:48 UTC
The problem does not appear to be a full-scale outage, but due to Cloudflare's role as a key internet infrastructure provider, even a small disruption can have noticeable ripple effects across the world.
Cloudflare has not yet confirmed the root cause or a resolution timeline, but says it is actively monitoring the situation.
