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Brex: Critical incident: Cloudflare Outage

Summary

Brex reported a critical outage affecting chat support, receipt processing and address verification due to partner Cloudflare’s outage; phone support remained available after the initial update. The incident started at 2025-11-18 13:17 UTC and was resolved at 2025-11-18 16:30 UTC, lasting 3 h 12 min.

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Major incidentLabel: outage (model (Jev), 99%)Changed Detected Source: stspg.io (opens in new tab)

What changed

AddedTitle#1
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After: Cloudflare Outage
AddedImpact#2
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After: critical
AddedStatus#3
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After: resolved
AddedStart time#4
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After: 2025-11-18 13:17 UTC
AddedResolved time#5
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After: 2025-11-18 16:30 UTC
AddedAffected components#6
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After: Bill Pay, Dashboard, Home Page, Mobile, Spend Management
AddedUpdateinvestigating#7
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After: Our ability to provide support via chat, text or phone is impacted. Our team is aware of the issue and is actively working to correct it.
AddedUpdateidentified#8
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After: Our ability to provide support via chat is impacted, but you can continue to receive support via phone. Our team is aware of the issue and is actively working to correct it.
AddedUpdateidentified#9
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After: Our ability to provide support via chat is impacted, but you can continue to receive support via phone. This is due to an outage by one of our partners, Cloudflare. Our team is actively monitoring the issue for resolution.
AddedUpdateidentified#10
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After: We are unable to provide support via chat, but phone support is available. Other functionality, including receipt processing and address verification are also impacted due to an outage by one of our partners, Cloudflare. Our team is monitoring the issue.
AddedUpdatemonitoring#11
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After: We experienced an outage affecting chat support, receipt processing and address verification due to an outage by one of our partners, Cloudflare. This is now resolved, and our team is monitoring to ensure normal operations.
AddedUpdateresolved#12
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After: We experienced an outage affecting chat support, receipt processing and address verification due to an outage by one of our partners, Cloudflare. This is now resolved, and our team is monitoring to ensure normal operations.

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History of this incident

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Critical incident: Cloudflare Outage (this change)
Brex reported a critical outage affecting chat support, receipt processing and address verification due to partner Cloudflare’s outage; phone support remained available after the initial update. The incident started at 2025-11-18 13:17 UTC and was resolved at 2025-11-18 16:30 UTC, lasting 3 h 12 min.
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