Investigating blocked requests from recently released crawling services

Incident Report for Cloudflare

Resolved

This incident has been resolved.

Posted May 19, 2023 - 15:13 UTC

We are currently testing & monitoring a fix. We will aim to release these changes within the next 24 hours dependent on our tests.

Posted May 19, 2023 - 12:04 UTC

Cloudflare has identified the issue related to the crawler and is deploying a fix to mitigate the issue

Posted May 18, 2023 - 13:17 UTC

The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

Posted May 18, 2023 - 12:12 UTC

Cloudflare is observing an increase of blocked requests from recently released crawling services. We are working on mitigating this behaviour.

Posted May 18, 2023 - 11:19 UTC

This incident affected: Cloudflare Sites and Services (Bot Management, Firewall).