A deep dive into Cloudflare’s September 12, 2025 dashboard and API outage

TL;DR


Summary:
- Cloudflare, a major internet infrastructure company, experienced an outage on September 12th that affected their dashboard and API services.
- The outage was caused by a configuration change that triggered a bug in their system, leading to a cascading failure that disrupted services for several hours.
- Cloudflare's engineers worked quickly to identify and resolve the issue, restoring full functionality to their dashboard and API services.

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