Cloudflare is down: Prearranged maintenance causes worldwide service disruptions; many users affected at different locations.

On December 5, 2025, Cloudflare, which is among the top providers of web security and infrastructure worldwide, acknowledged that its network's different parts had been subject to service disruptions. These disruptions started around 09:00 UTC and were highly felt in the websites, apps, and platforms relying on Cloudflare’s CDN, DNS, and security layers.

As per the latest update on the company’s official System Status page, the maintenance was “in progress,” and more updates would be given as the engineers were working on the planned activity.

According to Cloudflare, “Fix Implemented, Monitoring Ongoing.”

At 09:12 UTC, Cloudflare revealed that a fix had been put in place and the personnel were closely watching the network to ascertain stability.

Nevertheless, the company also reported an increase in mistakes, especially for the customers took up Cloudflare Workers, its serverless execution environment. The engineers are now investigating the problem, and preparing a solution that will last.

Cloudflare kept users posted saying the updates would not stop as the troubleshooting goes on. The businesses were advised to follow the status page to be up-to-date with real-time updates.

Users from across the world have reported outages on the Downdetector site.

The downtime affected a number of areas:

United States

more than 1,500 users shared that they encountered difficulties

server connections troubles were faced by 74%

website access was the problem for 19%

DNS was the trouble for 6%

India

also 2,000 reports were received

website problems were faced by 71%

server connection failures were reported by 22%

hosting-related problems were the case for 8%

Moreover, part of the outage event was the exposed dependency of the global digital infrastructure on Cloudflare’s network.

Cloudflare Investigates Dashboard & API Failures

In addition to general connectivity problems, Cloudflare pointed out that its Dashboard and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) were also offline. While the system is not fully stable yet, users may experience the following: request failures, slow loading, or error messages.

The Indian Market Brokers Zerodha, Angel One, and Groww Were Affected During the Outage

The outage adversely impacted the financial platforms in India, including:

Zerodha

Angel One

Groww

Zerodha has stated that its trading platform Kite was momentarily out of service as a result of Cloudflare's network-wide issues.

The firm suggested that users employ the Kite Whatsapp backup to carry out or close trades while the engineers restored the connectivity.

Retail traders, as well as high-frequency ones, could not have found this disruption more inconveniently timed.