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Outage in HetrixTools

Increased error rate for websites behind Cloudflare

Resolved Minor
March 18, 2026 - Started about 1 month ago - Lasted about 3 hours
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We've been observing an increased rate of 520 HTTP errors from HEAD requests to websites behind Cloudflare. Cloudflare has recently acknowledged the issue on their end and is working on a fix: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/kxvggpg7kwx5 In the meantime, you can fix the issue right away in your HetrixTools account by changing the "HTP Method" from "HEAD" to "GET" for any of your website monitors (by editing the monitor's settings): https://docs.hetrixtools.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/image.png You can check if you're affected by this Cloudflare issue by checking your Location Fail Log (https://docs.hetrixtools.com/location-fail-log/) and looking for 520 HTTP errors.

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RESOLVED about 1 month ago - at 03/18/2026 03:14PM

Cloudflare has updated the status of their incident to resolved.

We're noticing that the number of 520 HTTP errors from HEAD requests has gone down.

This incident is now resolved.

IDENTIFIED about 1 month ago - at 03/18/2026 12:20PM

We've been observing an increased rate of 520 HTTP errors from HEAD requests to websites behind Cloudflare.

Cloudflare has recently acknowledged the issue on their end and is working on a fix:
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/kxvggpg7kwx5

In the meantime, you can fix the issue right away in your HetrixTools account by changing the "HTP Method" from "HEAD" to "GET" for any of your website monitors (by editing the monitor's settings): https://docs.hetrixtools.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/image.png

You can check if you're affected by this Cloudflare issue by checking your Location Fail Log (https://docs.hetrixtools.com/location-fail-log/) and looking for 520 HTTP errors.

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