Kinsta outage, June 2026: Bot Management - Increased False Positives
Kinsta reported and resolved an incident: Bot Management - Increased False Positives. It lasted 3.9 hours.
OKResolved
From Kinsta's official status page, in their words.
What happened
- Started
- Resolved
- Duration
- 3.9 hours
- Impact
- minor
- Affected
- Cloudflare Integration
Why it happened
Kinsta has not given a cause in its updates. We never guess one.
Timeline
Newest first. From Kinsta's official status page, in their words.
- resolved
This incident has been resolved.
- monitoring
We are continuing to monitor the situation. Thank you for your patience.
- monitoring
Our service partner, Cloudflare, is currently experiencing an issue in which certain legitimate requests are being incorrectly assigned a low bot score. As a result, some requests may be blocked by our Bot Protection feature if it is enabled on the site. A fix has been released, and we are closely monitoring its results. You may also follow the link to Cloudflare's status page: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/3xzf6gwrv137.
What this means for a business (and what to check now)
- Retry anything that failed during the 3.9 hours.
- Enter any payments, bookings or jobs you took another way.
- If a deadline fell inside the window, keep this page as your record of the outage.
The full guide: what to do when a service you rely on is down
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