If you experienced internet issues this morning, you’re far from alone. Infrastructure company Cloudflare was hit with what it called “widespread 500 errors, [with] Dashboard and API also failing.” Fortunately, those issues were resolved a few hours later, but it still led to a bit of chaos online as the US east coast got its day started.
“Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers,” the company wrote in a status update around 7AM ET. “We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem.”
As of 9:50AM ET this morning, Cloudflare said that the issue had been resolved. The company’s CTO Dane Knecht shared the following statement on X, apologizing for the issues and saying the company would share details on what went wrong later today.
Cloudflare is a key internet hub providing network and security products for internet service providers, fortune 500 businesses and others. Those include “edge computing” and tools to protect websites from cyberattacks and help them stay online during distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks and heavy traffic periods.
The issue has affected numerous sites including X, OpenAI, Spotify, Letterboxd and, ironically, Downdetector — a site that can normally tell you which other websites are down. Affected sites may display a message indicating an “internal server error on Cloudflare’s network,” and request that you “try again in a few minutes.”
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