[daniel-grigg]

Your experience is different to mine. Here in Australia the status page was inaccessible. Which immediately leads to common wisdom on monitoring systems - the monitor must always be separate to the monitored.

[cyphar]

Are you using Cloudflare DNS? I couldn't access it either during the outage and I just came to the realisation it might be because I switched to 1.1.1.1 a while ago.

[vnkr]

Cloudflare's status page is one of the very few services of Cloudflare that are hosted elsewhere precisely for the reason it needs to be available if something isn't working.

[paranoidrobot]

> Here in Australia the status page was inaccessible.

Me and a bunch of my colleagues were all able to access it (different ISPs) on the east coast.

[beefsack]

I was also able to access it, and my primary DNS was 1.1.1.1, though I use 8.8.8.8 as secondary so that might've saved me if primary wasn't working.

[Maxious]

It seemed like ISPs with east coast Vocus backhaul (going to SYD rather than MEL/PER POPs - TIL there's also CBR/BNE/ADL) had it worst trying to get to the status page but as the timeline shows, cloudflare was probably already recovering as we were triaging.

[kondro]

Also in Australia and had no issues with the status page from the very beginning of the outage.