Shutdown season: the Q2 2025 Internet disruption summary
2025-07-22
In Q2 2025, we observed Internet disruptions around the world resulting from government-directed shutdowns, power outages, cable damage, a cyberattack, and technical problems....
The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI’s impact on content providers
2025-07-01
Cloudflare Radar now shows how often a given AI model sends traffic to a site relative to how often it crawls that site. This helps site owners make decisions about which AI bots to allow or block. ...
How the April 28, 2025, power outage in Portugal and Spain impacted Internet traffic and connectivity
2025-04-28
A massive power outage struck significant portions of Portugal and Spain at 10:34 UTC on April 28, disrupting everyday activities and services....
New year, no shutdowns: the Q1 2025 Internet disruption summary
2025-04-22
In Q1 2025, we observed Internet disruptions around the world caused by cable damage, power outages, natural disasters, fire, a cyberattack, and technical problems....
Extending Cloudflare Radar’s security insights with new DDoS, leaked credentials, and bots datasets
2025-03-18
For Security Week 2025, we are adding several new DDoS-focused graphs, new insights into leaked credential trends, and a new Bots page to Cloudflare Radar. ...
No hallucinations here: track the latest AI trends with expanded insights on Cloudflare Radar
2025-02-04
Today, we are launching a new dedicated “AI Insights” page on Cloudflare Radar that incorporates this graph and builds on it with additional metrics....
A diversity of downtime: the Q4 2024 Internet disruption summary
2025-01-28
After a rather busy third quarter, the fourth quarter of 2024 saw significantly fewer Internet disruptions....
Cloudflare 2024 Year in Review
2024-12-09
The 2024 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review is our fifth annual review of Internet trends and patterns at both a global and country/region level....
Resilient Internet connectivity in Europe mitigates impact from multiple cable cuts
2024-11-20
Two recent cable cuts that occurred in the Baltic Sea resulted in little-to-no observable impact to the affected countries, in large part because of the significant redundancy and resilience of Internet infrastructure in Europe. ...
Cloudflare’s perspective of the October 30, 2024, OVHcloud outage
2024-10-30
On October 30, 2024, cloud hosting provider OVHcloud (AS16276) suffered a brief but significant outage. Within this post, we review Cloudflare’s perspective on this outage....
Forced offline: the Q3 2024 Internet disruption summary
2024-10-29
The third quarter of 2024 was particularly active, with quite a few significant Internet disruptions. ...
Impact of Verizon’s September 30 outage on Internet traffic
2024-10-01
On Monday, September 30, customers on Verizon’s mobile network in multiple cities across the United States reported experiencing a loss of connectivity. HTTP request traffic data from Verizon’s mobile ASN (AS6167) showed nominal declines across impacted cities. ...
Network trends and natural language: Cloudflare Radar’s new Data Explorer & AI Assistant
2024-09-27
The Cloudflare Radar Data Explorer provides a simple Web-based interface to build more complex API queries, including comparisons and filters, and visualize the results. The accompanying AI Assistant translates a user’s natural language statements or questions into the appropriate Radar API calls....
AI Everywhere with the WAF Rule Builder Assistant, Cloudflare Radar AI Insights, and updated AI bot protection
2024-09-27
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This year for Cloudflare’s birthday, we’ve extended our AI Assistant capabilities to help you build new WAF rules, added new AI bot & crawler traffic insights to Radar, and given customers new AI bot ...
Introducing HTTP request traffic insights on Cloudflare Radar
2024-08-13
The traffic graphs on Cloudflare Radar have been enhanced to include HTTP request traffic. This new metric complements the existing bytes-based “HTTP traffic” view, and the new graphs can be found on Radar’s Overview and Traffic pages....
A recent spate of Internet disruptions
2024-08-01
Cloudflare Radar is constantly monitoring the Internet for widespread disruptions. Here we examine several recent noteworthy disruptions detected in the first month of Q3, including traffic anomalies observed in Bangladesh, Syria, Pakistan, and Venezuela....
Q2 2024 Internet disruption summary
2024-07-16
Government directed shutdowns and cable cuts were both significant sources of Internet outages in Q2 2024. This post explores these disruptions, as well as others caused by power outages, maintenance, technical problems, military action, and unknown causes...
Exam-ining recent Internet shutdowns in Syria, Iraq, and Algeria
2024-06-21
Similar to actions taken over the last several years, governments in Syria, Iraq, and Algeria have again disrupted Internet connectivity nationwide in an attempt to prevent cheating on exams. We investigate how these disruptions were implemented, and their impact...
East African Internet connectivity again impacted by submarine cable cuts
2024-05-13
On Sunday, May 12, issues with the EASSy and Seacom submarine cables again disrupted connectivity to East Africa, impacting a number of countries previously affected by a set of cable cuts that occurred nearly three months earlier...