Cursor: DNS Connectivity Issues Impacting Background Agent
Cloudflare outage, Jul 14, 2025 · 6 vendors, 6 incidents
Cursor’s incident blames Cloudflare as the cause. (hop 1, posted +0 min vs the first vendor naming Cloudflare)
“…DNS Connectivity Issues Impacting Background Agent The upstream issue with Cloudflare DNS has been resolved.…”
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Mermaid source
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root["Cloudflare<br/>own incident not archived"]:::inferred
h1["Within an hour<br/>2 vendors, 2 blamed Cloudflare<br/>Cursor, Retell AI"]:::blames
root --> h1
me["Cursor (this incident)<br/>posted +0 min"]:::me
h1 --- 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.
Timeline of updates
- resolved
The upstream issue with Cloudflare DNS has been resolved.
From Cursor’s published incident history: for incidents before Rewindex began polling this status page, only the final update text is available.
Archive proof
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How the archive is checked, and what it cannot prove.
This incident predates live tracking (October 17, 2026). It came from the vendor’s own published history, which is not covered by checkpoints.
Impact, status and times are the vendor’s own, as last archived. View on status.cursor.com (opens in new tab).