A recent outage at Cloudflare led to significant disruptions across the internet, affecting prominent platforms such as X and ChatGPT. The outage, initially attributed to internal service issues, was later traced back to a spike in unusual traffic overwhelming Cloudflare’s network.
Cloudflare’s status page indicated that a fix has been implemented, with services gradually returning to normal. The company clarified that the root cause of the outage was a configuration file exceeding its expected size, triggering system crashes for various Cloudflare services. Notably, Cloudflare emphasized that the incident was not a result of an attack or malicious activity.
While some services may experience temporary degradation post-incident due to increased traffic levels, Cloudflare expects a full recovery in the coming hours.
Source: Ars Technica