# 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.

Canonical page: https://datacenterlabeling.com/references/s40

Original source: [Cloudflare: Dashboard and API outage on April 15, 2020](https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-dashboard-and-api-outage-on-april-15-2020/)

## Scope of this source

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

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.

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