On July 14th, 2025, Cloudflare made a change to our service topologies that caused an outage for 1.1.1.1 on the edge, resulting in downtime for 62 minutes for customers using the 1.1.1.1 public DNS Resolver as well as intermittent degradation of ...
Gartner has recognized Cloudflare as a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms report. We view this evaluation as a significant recognition of our strategy to help connect and secure workspace security and coffee shop ...
Welcome to the 22nd edition of the Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report. Published quarterly, this report offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolving threat landscape of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks based on data from the Cloudflare ...
This blog post is the first of a series, in which we share our journey in redesigning Quicksilver -- Cloudflare's distributed key-value store that serves over 3 billion keys per second globally. Here we discuss how we migrated from full datasets on . ...
Cloudflare chose TimescaleDB to power its Digital Experience Monitoring and Zero Trust Analytics products. TimescaleDB is a PostgreSQL extension designed for real-time analytics and time series data, and it helped us reduce query latency by 5-35x and ...
Cloudflare's SASE platform now offers egress policies by hostname, domain, content category, and application in open beta. This makes it easy to author simple and secure policies that control the source IP addresses that an organization's Internet .. ...
From May 2024 to May 2025, crawler traffic rose 18%, with GPTBot growing 305% and Googlebot 96%. This blog post explores crawling activity focused on AI and search web crawlers, and how 14% of top domains now use robots.txt rules to manage them.
It's Content Independence Day: Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for content.
Bots can start authenticating to Cloudflare using public key cryptography, preventing them from being spoofed and allowing origins to have confidence in their identity.