Cloudflare Pages intermittently returning 503 errors in Australia
Our site on Cloudflare Pages randomly started returning
503 errors since Sat, Aug 23, 11:42 PM AEST.
https://journi.au/
This was not following any changes to the Worker, the last deployment was on 12:12 PM June 11, 2025.
The issue is very intermittent, sometimes resolving itself for hours or days, but always coming back and impacting the site for minutes or hours at time.
Our Synthetic Monitor on New Relic shows 170 errors with 503 status in the last 24 hours, screenshot attached.
Analytics & Logs > HTTP Traffic shows 1140 requests with an Origin status code of 503 Service Unavailable in the past 24 hours, screenshot attached.
The Metrics tab of the Worker shows 0 errors in the last 24 hours, screenshot attached.
When replicating the issue and searching the Ray ID (e.g. 9780e12c7ee60fc3) through Security > Analytics it shows the following, screenshot attached.
The error page returned is a Cloudflare page titled "Error 1105", screenshot attached.
While the issue is active, it's easy to replicate this by running a test from https://www.webpagetest.org and using Sydney, Australia as the test location.Journi
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When replicating a
503 response using "Real-time Logs" on the Worker, the response from the Worker is 200, example response attached.