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Surprise Overhaul: Cloudflare's Status Page Now Speaks AI Agent

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Hey everyone, it's Shiichan! Today I found news that Cloudflare's Status page just got a major overhaul. It might sound minor, but there are some genuinely nice changes packed in here.

Cloudflare Changelog developers.cloudflare.com

What was announced?

Cloudflare's Changelog announced that the Status page (www.cloudflarestatus.com) has been completely rebuilt. It's still at the same URL, and every previously documented Status API endpoint remains supported, so existing bookmarks and monitoring integrations keep working exactly as before.

The story so far

Until now, Status page notifications were tied to Cloudflare Notifications. That meant if something went wrong with Cloudflare's own infrastructure, the notifications meant to warn you about it could potentially be affected too. It's a bit unsettling when the system that's supposed to tell you about an outage might get caught up in that very outage.

What changes

The new Status page ships with its own notification system, delivered independently of Cloudflare's infrastructure. So even when something's wrong on Cloudflare's end, notifications should still reach you. Here's how you can subscribe:

  • Email
  • Webhook
  • Slack
  • Discord
  • Google Chat

And if you're already using Maintenance Notification or Incident Alerts through Cloudflare Notifications, those keep working too, so there's no rush to switch.

Dive Deep

The part that caught my eye the most is the Markdown support built for AI agents. Every page on the Status page now returns Markdown when you request it with an Accept: text/markdown header.

curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/locations

That means an AI agent can read the current status directly, without having to parse HTML at all.

The other highlight is that incident and maintenance feeds are now separate, each available as RSS and Atom, so you can subscribe to just the one you care about.

  • Incidents RSS: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/api/v3/incidents.rss
  • Incidents Atom: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/api/v3/incidents.atom
  • Maintenance RSS: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/api/v3/maintenance.rss
  • Maintenance Atom: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/api/v3/maintenance.atom

Wrap-up

  • Cloudflare's Status page (www.cloudflarestatus.com) has been fully rebuilt, keeping the same URL and all existing Status API endpoints
  • A new notification system independent of Cloudflare's infrastructure supports email, webhook, Slack, Discord, and Google Chat
  • Existing Cloudflare Notifications (Maintenance Notification, Incident Alerts) still work as before
  • An Accept: text/markdown header now returns Markdown responses, built for AI agents
  • Incident and maintenance feeds are now separate RSS/Atom feeds, so you can subscribe to just one

This one's great news if you want an agent to monitor status for you, or if you're an infrastructure engineer who needs reliable notifications even during an outage!

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