A series of websites - including LinkedIn, Zoom, Canva, Shopify, and Downdetector - experienced outages following a second Cloudflare disruption in less than a month. This comes on the heels of a much larger outage in mid-November, where a Cloudflare configuration caused a major crash affecting X, OpenAI, Spotify, and global online gaming platforms. Together, these events have prompted renewed scrutiny of Cloudflare’s reliability, particularly given its role as an infrastructure provider for roughly 20% of the internet. The recent outages also highlight growing concerns about the ability for organizations like Cloudflare to maintain reliability while having limited monitoring capabilities.

These incidents reinforce the critical importance of implementing an end-to-end network-to-application and infrastructure monitoring solution like NIKSUN. With complete visibility - from raw packets to application behavior, firewall health, and system performance - organizations can rapidly detect performance anomalies, validate provider failures, and pinpoint root causes across complex, interconnected environments. Only with a full-stack observability approach can companies ensure they are not blind during internal or third-party outages, enabling proactive mitigation, improved resilience, and faster decision-making in the face of disruptions.