Cloudflare Outage Brings ChatGPT Down: What's Behind the Technical Glitch and How to Get Back Online
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A massive technical outage at Cloudflare, a global network that supports millions of internet properties, left millions of ChatGPT users worldwide scrambling for solutions on Tuesday. The outage, which impacted several websites, including the popular AI chatbot, was attributed to a latent bug in Cloudflare's bot mitigation capability. Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht acknowledged the company's failure to meet customer expectations, stating that a routine configuration change triggered a chain reaction that led to a broad degradation of their network and services. As users in India, ChatGPT's second-largest market, were among those affected, they were left concerned about accessing the chatbot. However, some users were able to regain access as Cloudflare worked to resolve the issue. While Cloudflare's technical team continues to monitor for errors, users cannot manually resolve the issue on their own. For urgent information, users may consider alternative chatbots, such as Microsoft Copilot, Google's Gemini assistant, or DeepSeek AI, until ChatGPT is back online. In the meantime, users can stay updated on the latest developments surrounding the Cloudflare outage. Cloudflare's CTO has assured that the company is working diligently to prevent such incidents in the future.
