Bot Management Issues

lowCloudflareFeb 20, 2026 12:51Duration: 21h 22m

api

API Issue

Summary

This incident has been resolved.

Impact

minor

Timeline

Feb 17, 2026 17:55

[investigating] Cloudflare is investigating issues with our Bot Management feature. Customers may experience an increase in the percentage of traffic detected as automated with JSD detections since Feb 12 2026. We are working to mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly.

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+30m

Feb 17, 2026 18:25

[monitoring] A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

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+2h 24m

Feb 17, 2026 20:49

[resolved] This incident has been resolved.

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+64h 3m

Feb 20, 2026 12:51

[identified] Cloudflare is investigating issues with our Bot Management feature. Customers may experience a decrease in the percentage of traffic detected as automated since JSD detections have been turned off due to false positives since Feb 18 2026. We are working to mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly.

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+21h 22m

Feb 21, 2026 10:13

[resolved] This incident has been resolved.

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Lessons Learned

⚠Cloudflare has experienced 252 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to api have occurred 735 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: API Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.