The Cloudflare Blog

2 min read Original article ↗

How Workers powers our internal maintenance scheduling pipeline

Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025

2025-12-05

Cloudflare experienced a significant traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting approximately at 8:47 UTC. The incident lasted approximately 25 minutes before resolution. We are sorry for the impact that it caused to our customers and the Internet. The incident was not caused by an attack and was due to configuration changes being applied to attempt to mitigate a recent industry-wide vulnerability impacting React Server Components....

  • Dane Knecht

Why Replicate is joining Cloudflare

2025-12-01

Today, we’re excited to announce that Replicate is officially part of Cloudflare. We wanted to share a bit about our journey and why we made this decision. ...

  • Andreas Jansson
  • Ben Firshman

Get better visibility for the WAF with payload logging

2025-11-24

The WAF provides ways for our customers to gain insight into why it takes certain actions. The more granular and precise the insight, the more reproducible and understandable it is. Revamped payload logging is one such method. ...

  • Paschal Obba

Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025

2025-11-18

Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected. ...

  • Matthew Prince

Replicate is joining Cloudflare

2025-11-17

Bringing Replicate’s tools into Cloudflare will continue to make our Workers Platform the best place on the Internet to build and deploy any AI or agentic workflow. ...

  • Rita Kozlov
  • Ben Firshman

Finding the grain of sand in a heap of Salt

2025-11-13

We explore the fundamentals of Saltstack and how we use it at Cloudflare. We also explain how we built the infrastructure to reduce release delays due to Salt failures on the edge by over 5%. ...

  • Opeyemi Onikute
  • Menno Bezema
  • Nick Rhodes

A closer look at Python Workflows, now in beta

2025-11-10

Cloudflare Workflows, our durable execution engine for running multi-step applications, now supports Python. That means less friction, more possibilities, and another reason to build on Cloudflare....

  • Caio Nogueira
  • Mia Malden