Cloudflare outage hits OpenAI, Perplexity

“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.

Can't access Canva? Find out why.
The popular design platform Canva has joined the list of sites affected by the Cloudfare outage.

Canva said in a statement that Cloudfare is the CDN provider for the platform. This is causing Canva to not load 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 on social media platforms peaked at 5:09 p.m., with over 11,000 reports filed.

As the outage spread to other websites relying on Cloudflare's infrastructure services, visitors encountered "an internal server error on Cloudflare's network" and were instructed to "please try again in a few minutes."

Cloudflare said its staff is "continuing to investigate the issue" as of 7:03 AM ET, despite the fact that its status page also appears to be corrupted and losing its CSS design.