Is Cloudflare Down? How to Check Status During an Outage

# Is Cloudflare Down? How to Check Status During an Outage A Cloudflare outage is unusual — but when it happens, it takes down huge swathes of the internet simultaneously. Here's how to diagnose a Cloudflare issue and what to do about it. ## Check Cloudflare Status Instantly [Use Ezmon to check Cloudflare](https://ezmon.com/check?url=https://cloudflare.com) for basic reachability. Cloudflare's authoritative status page is at **www.cloudflarestatus.com** — it shows real-time status for each PoP (point of presence) region separately, which is critical because Cloudflare outages are often regional, not global. ## Cloudflare Is Rarely Fully Down Unlike single-datacenter services, Cloudflare runs on 300+ edge locations worldwide. When Cloudflare has an incident, it usually affects: - **Specific regions** (e.g., US-East, APAC, Europe) - **Specific services** (Workers, R2, KV, Durable Objects, Pages) - **Specific products** (Tunnel, Access, Gateway) Your site may be down in one city but working fine in another. ## Famous Cloudflare Outages **June 2022** — A major outage took down ~19% of Cloudflare's global network for ~1 hour due to a BGP routing issue during a network infrastructure change. Affected sites included Discord, Shopify, and thousands more. **July 2020** — A configuration error caused a widespread outage affecting multiple Cloudflare products. These events are historically rare — Cloudflare's core network typically delivers 99.99%+ availability. ## What to Do If Cloudflare Is Causing Issues for Your Site 1. **Check wwww.cloudflarestatus.com** — see if your region is affected 2. **Temporarily disable Cloudflare** — "Pause Cloudflare" in the dashboard routes traffic directly to your origin 3. **Use Cloudflare's Always Online** — cached pages may still serve during edge issues 4. **Set up health alerts** — Cloudflare's own health notifications, plus external monitoring ## Monitor Your Cloudflare-Proxied Sites Even when Cloudflare itself is fine, your origin server may be down. [Ezmon](https://ezmon.com) monitors your actual domains (not just Cloudflare) and alerts you the moment something goes wrong — whether it's your origin, Cloudflare's edge, or your DNS. [Start monitoring for free →](https://ezmon.com)