A deep dive into Cloudflare’s September 12, 2025 dashboard and API outage
Cloudflare experienced a partial outage affecting its Dashboard and related APIs for an hour on September 12, starting at 17:57 UTC, without impacting the delivery of cached files.
MAIN POINTS
- Cloudflare's Dashboard and related APIs were down for an hour.
- The outage began on September 12, at 17:57 UTC.
- Cached file delivery remained unaffected during the outage.
- The issue was resolved within an hour.
TAKEAWAYS
- Cloudflare's core services can experience temporary disruptions.
- Cached content delivery is resilient to Dashboard/API outages.
- Quick resolution of outages is a priority for Cloudflare.
- Monitoring and transparency are crucial during service disruptions.