Chargebee: PayPal Service Degradation
Cloudflare outage, Nov 18, 2025 · 77 vendors, 81 incidents
Chargebee’s incident started in the same window without naming Cloudflare (timing only, not evidence of a link). (timing only, posted +1 h 2 min vs the first vendor naming Cloudflare)
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Mermaid source
flowchart LR
root["Cloudflare<br/>own incident not archived"]:::inferred
h1["Within an hour<br/>13 vendors, 13 blamed Cloudflare<br/>Stytch, Zed, NordLayer +10"]:::blames
root --> h1
h4["1 to 4 hours later<br/>19 vendors, 19 blamed Cloudflare<br/>GitLab, Gorgias, Cursor +16"]:::blames
root --> h4
later["Later<br/>7 vendors, 7 blamed Cloudflare<br/>RudderStack, Brex, Maven Central +4"]:::blames
root --> later
me["Chargebee (this incident)<br/>posted +1 h 2 min"]:::me
root -.->|"same window"| meFull event: timeline, evidence and all vendors →
Detected automatically from incidents that started together and named the same provider. A link means one vendor’s incident named another, not a confirmed cause.
Affected components: AdyenPayment Gateway Processing - AdyenPayment Gateway Processing - PayPal Payment ServicesPayPal Payment ServicesBraintree Gateway APIPayment Gateway Processing - Braintree Gateway API
Timeline of updates
- investigating
As of 11:32 UTC, PayPal is experiencing a system issue which is impacting multiple payment services. We are continuing to monitor and will post further updates. Status updates: https://paypal-status.com/incident/production
- resolved
This incident has been resolved.
Archive proof
Rewindex commits each version of an incident it captures to a daily checkpoint, chains it to the day before, and has the checkpoint timestamped by FreeTSA and DigiCert. That proves this record existed by then and has not been changed since, by anyone, Rewindex included.
How the archive is checked, and what it cannot prove.
First version captured 18:22 UTC
In the 2026-10-17 checkpoint, timestamped by FreeTSA and DigiCert on Oct 19, 23:18 UTC. Record hash
63dde6c06b55f134…
Impact, status and times are the vendor’s own, as last archived. View on stspg.io (opens in new tab).