#cloudflare-outage

#cloudflare-outage

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"I won't mince words: earlier today we failed our customers and the broader internet when a problem impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on us," he wrote on X. "The sites, businesses and organisations that rely on Cloudflare depend on us being available and I apologise for the impact we caused. "Transparency about what happened matters, and we plan to share a breakdown with more details in a few hours. In short, a latent bug i

Prince has penned a late Tuesday post that explains the incident was "triggered by a change to one of our database systems' permissions which caused the database to output multiple entries into a 'feature file' used by our Bot Management system." The file describes malicious bot activity and Cloudflare distributes it so the software that runs its routing infrastructure is aware of emerging threats.

The root cause of the outage was a configuration file that is automatically generated to manage threat traffic,