Cloudflare incident

Issue with Bot management traffic categorization for verified bots

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Cloudflare experienced a minor incident on October 20, 2026 affecting Bot Management, lasting 41m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Oct 20, 2026, 07:35 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 20, 2026, 08:16 PM UTC
Duration
41m
Detected by Pingoru
Oct 20, 2026, 07:35 PM UTC

Affected components

Bot Management

Update timeline

  1. investigating Oct 20, 2026, 07:35 PM UTC

    Cloudflare is investigating issues with our Bot Management feature. Customers may observe a limited number of verified bots incorrectly identified as automated traffic

  2. resolved Oct 20, 2026, 08:16 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.