A major Cloudflare outage on Friday temporarily broke access to several high-traffic websites and apps, leaving users across India staring at “500 Internal Server Error” messages. Popular platforms including Canva, BookMyShow, LinkedIn, Notion, Groww, Coinbase, SpaceX, Zerodha, and Shopify were hit—marking the second such disruption in just three weeks.
A Wave of Websites Go Dark
The outage began early Friday afternoon, affecting any service relying on Cloudflare’s CDN and network infrastructure. For many users, even Downdetector—the site used to track outages—stopped loading, making it tough to understand the scale of the disruption.
Gadgets 360 staff members reported that multiple global platforms became inaccessible around the same time. The BookMyShow app and website briefly went down too before recovering.
Cloudflare Confirms the Issue
Cloudflare’s official status page quickly acknowledged “issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs.”
The company said it deployed a fix and was monitoring systems as services gradually came back online.
According to the update, customers using Cloudflare’s Dashboard or APIs were directly impacted, causing page requests to fail or return error codes.
Platforms Issue Statements
Several affected companies informed users about the disruption:
- Groww posted on X that its systems were down due to a “global outage at Cloudflare.” The platform later confirmed that services had been restored.
- Canva said its CDN provider (Cloudflare) was experiencing an outage, leading to temporary inaccessibility.
- Other services like Coinbase, SpaceX-linked platforms, and enterprise tools such as Notion and LinkedIn saw widespread login and loading failures.
Second Outage in Three Weeks
The latest disruption comes close on the heels of Cloudflare’s massive November 18 outage, which briefly took down X, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Canva, and several news websites in India.
After that incident, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince explained that a permissions change inside one of the company’s database systems triggered the collapse—calling it “Cloudflare’s worst outage since 2019.”
While Friday’s outage wasn’t as severe, the repeated failures have raised questions about increasing reliance on third-party infrastructure powering large chunks of the internet.
What’s Working Now?
Most major platforms are back online, though some users may still encounter slow load times as systems stabilize. Cloudflare says it continues to monitor its fix to ensure global recovery.
For now, the episode serves as another reminder of how a single glitch in a global network provider can ripple across hundreds of websites at once—even the tools we use to check outages
