Resolved · lasted 3 h
Cloudflare outage on October 20
Reports for Cloudflare jumped to 204 an hour and stayed high for 3 h.
- Started
- 5:00 PM
- October 20, 2026 · UTC
- Back to normal
- 8:00 PM
- 3 h later
- Peak
- 204/hr
- 6× normal
- Cloudflare’s incident
- 41 min
- Issue with Bot management traffic categorization for verified bots
Reports during the outage
3:00 PM9:50 PM UTC
What Cloudflare said
www.cloudflarestatus.comResolved7:35 – 8:16 PM · 41 min
Issue with Bot management traffic categorization for verified bots
- Resolved · 8:16 PM
This incident has been resolved.
- Investigating · 7:35 PM
Cloudflare is investigating issues with our Bot Management feature. Customers may observe a limited number of verified bots incorrectly identified as automated traffic
Cloudflare posted its first update 2 h 36 min after reports started rising.
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