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SOURCE NOTE / S40

Cloudflare: Dashboard and API outage on April 15, 2020

Primary operator incident report published April 16, 2020. Scope limited to the reported event; retirement-register lesson is explicitly editorial.

SOURCE CHECK / SEP 12, 2026

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Primary operator incident report published April 16, 2020. Scope limited to the reported event; retirement-register lesson is explicitly editorial.

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Cloudflare describes the April 15, 2020 Dashboard and API outage and its restoration and prevention measures. Its customer-traffic proxying continued; the case is not a claim that its entire network stopped or that labeling was the sole cause.

Review date: 2026-09-12. This note describes the source scope; it is not a project approval.

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