# Bot Management

Cloudflare Bot Management uses machine learning and behavioral analysis to detect and stop malicious bot traffic before it reaches applications.

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## Reliability lessons from the 2025 Cloudflare outage

DevFeed: [Reliability lessons from the 2025 Cloudflare outage](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/reliability-lessons-from-the-2025-cloudflare-outage-11697.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.gremlin.com/blog/reliability-lessons-from-the-2025-cloudflare-outage>)

Author: Andre Newman

Published: 2025-11-20T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Gremlin Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/gremlin-blog.md>)

Topics: [Cloudflare](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloudflare.md>), [Bot Management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bot-management.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [Chaos Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chaos-engineering.md>), [Post Mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/post-mortem.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [Workers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/workers.md>)

Tags: [2025](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2025.md>), [after-the-retrospective](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/after-the-retrospective.md>), [bot-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bot-management.md>), [chaos-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chaos-engineering.md>), [cloudflare](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloudflare.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [http](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/http.md>), [internet](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/internet.md>), [management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/management.md>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [outages](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outages.md>), [post-mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post-mortem.md>), [workers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workers.md>)

### AI overview

The article examines the November 2025 Cloudflare outage, explaining how an oversized Bot Management configuration caused HTTP 5XX errors and cascading failures across dependent services. It highlights configuration propagation, service dependencies, and chaos engineering as reliability considerations.

### Source excerpt

In November 2025, a misconfigured Cloudflare service led to a partial outage. Learn what happened, and what you can do to reduce the impact of similar outages.