521 errors from Cloudflare Pages site

For Workes & Pages, what is the name of the domain?

matiaskorhonen.fi

What is the error number?

521

What is the error message?

There has been a spike in 521 errors from your origin.

What is the issue or error you’re encountering

Repeated email notifications for ‘[Cloudflare]: Server Unreachable’

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

Checked the site but it has been up every time I’ve gotten the email notification.

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

There doesn’t seem to be anything I can do about this error. If the Cloudflare Pages origin is unreachable, that would seem to be an internal Cloudflare issue.

Screenshot of the error

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I’ve suddenly started receiving the same emails for a variety of domains, some of which are hosted as Cloudflare Pages sites, which makes no sense about the issue of an “origin” server.

I also haven’t actually experienced the sites being down, just receiving the notification emails.

I have had the exact same issue. I got an Email from Cloudflare telling me of 521 Error, server unreachable for two of my domains.

Both domain sites are working so not sure of the relevance of the error message.

Contacted Bluetooth and they investigated, no problems found at their end. They thought it might be a cache issue for Cloudflare.

Gee it would be good if Cloudflare’s support system was as good as Bluehosts. Cloudflare support is really a hands off deal unless you have a paid subscription. Tried to make it work but in the end gave up - hence this reply.

I have been getting a number of these 521 error notifications for a few weeks now. The errors at first were on pages that I have permanently/indefinitely cached in the Cloudflare cache settings. My origin server has been up for over a year without issues.

But now I am receiving 521 error notifications from a Cloudflare Page site, so their own servers are returning errors.

Cloudflare clearly have some bug in their origin scanner, but there is no way to inform them of this because unfortunately their support line has shut down.

I’m glad others are getting the same notifications with no evidence of actual downtime.

thanks for that Franz4

Thanks everyone for discussing this. I also have received these 521 error emails and also found that our hosting servers were up.