BigCommerce incident

High Rate of Cloudflare Challenge Pages

Ongoing since 03:11 AM UTC, affecting Storefront.

monitoring Oct 28, 2026, 03:11 AM UTC

The BigCommerce platform is currently experiencing an abnormally high volume of automated traffic being directed at stores. The engineering team has deployed a number of security rules to mitigate this traffic and to ensure reliability and performance of the platform is maintained. During this time merchants and shoppers may be presented with a Cloudflare challenge page as they navigate the store, which verifies they are a human user. The engineering team is continuing to refine the rules and and working to reduce frequency of these interruptions. We are also working closely with our vendor to further mitigate and improve the automatic classification of traffic. If you are experiencing issues managing your store through the Control Panel or API, we advise you to reach out the BigCommerce Support team for further assistance.

Started
Oct 28, 2026, 03:11 AM UTC
Resolved
Ongoing
Duration
● 5m
Detected by Pingoru
Oct 28, 2026, 03:11 AM UTC

Affected components

Storefront

Update timeline

  1. monitoring Oct 28, 2026, 03:11 AM UTC

    The BigCommerce platform is currently experiencing an abnormally high volume of automated traffic being directed at stores. The engineering team has deployed a number of security rules to mitigate this traffic and to ensure reliability and performance of the platform is maintained. During this time merchants and shoppers may be presented with a Cloudflare challenge page as they navigate the store, which verifies they are a human user. The engineering team is continuing to refine the rules and and working to reduce frequency of these interruptions. We are also working closely with our vendor to further mitigate and improve the automatic classification of traffic. If you are experiencing issues managing your store through the Control Panel or API, we advise you to reach out the BigCommerce Support team for further assistance.

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