OUTAGE ANALYSIS
Cloudflare Outage Analysis: November 18, 2025

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Cloudflare Outage Analysis: November 18, 2025

By Internet Research Team
| | 1 min read

Summary

On November 18, Cisco ThousandEyes observed a global outage affecting cloud and CDN provider Cloudflare, impacting multiple Internet services. See how the outage unfolded in this analysis—more updates will be added as we have them.


[November 18, 2025, 6:30 AM PDT] 

On November 18, 2025, at approximately 11:30 UTC, Cisco ThousandEyes began observing a global outage affecting cloud and CDN provider Cloudflare, impacting multiple Internet services including X, OpenAI, and Anthropic. While network paths to Cloudflare's front-end infrastructure appeared clear of any elevated latency or packet loss, Cisco ThousandEyes observed a number of timeouts and HTTP 5XX server errors, which is indicative of a backend services issue. While Cloudflare has confirmed they are implementing remediation, the outage is still ongoing. 


Explore the outage within the ThousandEyes platform (no login required). 

Figure 1. Sample service impacted by the outage.
Figure 1. Sample service impacted by the outage.

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