Cloudflare Outage Hits Internet with 500 Internal Server Error

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A major disruption swept across the internet today as Cloudflare, a critical backbone for millions of websites, reported widespread issues with its Dashboard and APIs, triggering 500 Internal Server Errors for users globally.

The outage, confirmed by Cloudflare’s status page, began around 08:56 UTC and impacted management tools, automations, and integrations reliant on these services.

While edge services like CDN caching and security features remained operational, the failure crippled administrative access for developers and businesses.

Cloudflare announced it was actively investigating the problems, noting that customers might encounter failed requests or error displays when accessing the Dashboard or APIs.

This incident coincided with scheduled maintenance in key U.S. datacenters, including DTW (Detroit) from 09:00-13:00 UTC and ORD (Chicago) from 07:00-11:00 UTC, which could have rerouted traffic and elevated latency. Although described as routine, the timing amplified the chaos, with some reports linking it to broader service degradation.

The issue began earlier today and has caused widespread disruptions for users who rely on Cloudflare’s management tools and automation features.

According to Cloudflare, many users may encounter 500 Internal Server Errors, failed API requests, or malfunctioning integrations.

Cloudflare status page

The ripple effects hit high-profile platforms hard. Trading apps like Zerodha, Groww, and Angel One faced login failures and order placement issues during market hours, forcing users to fallback options.

Design tool Canva, AI services including Claude and Perplexity, and even outage tracker Downdetector went dark or slowed, as they depend on Cloudflare’s infrastructure. Social media buzzed with complaints, echoing recent outages that exposed the company’s single points of vulnerability.

Cloudflare stated a fix had been implemented and was monitoring results, urging users to subscribe for updates via email, PagerDuty, or webhooks.

This marks another blow following disruptions in November and September 2025, raising questions about resilience in an internet evermore dependent on a few providers. As services stabilize, the focus shifts to preventing future thundering herds of errors that cascade globally.

Cloudflare is expected to release more information once the issue has been identified and resolved.

Update : Cloudflare is looking into a rise in errors for customers using Workers scripts.

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