Cloudflare GraphQL API outage for DNS metrics

lowCloudflareMar 4, 2026 18:53Duration: -413m

dnsapi

DNS FailureAPI Issue

Summary

Cloudflare GraphQL API experienced an outage between 11:56 and 17:00 UTC affecting DNS metrics queries across all regions. This issue has been resolved.

Impact

none

Timeline

Mar 4, 2026 18:53

[resolved] Cloudflare GraphQL API experienced an outage between 11:56 and 17:00 UTC affecting DNS metrics queries across all regions. This issue has been resolved.

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Lessons Learned

⚠Cloudflare has experienced 60 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to dns, api have occurred 190 times across all providers in the past year. This is one of the most common failure categories in cloud infrastructure.

💡This incident is categorized as: DNS Failure, API Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.