Cloudflare Down Today: Global Internet Outage on December 5, 2025 – What Happened, Who Was Hit, and If It’s Fixed Now
Cloudflare went down on December 5, 2025, knocking out up to 20% of websites and causing 500 Internal Server Errors across major apps like Zoom, LinkedIn, X, Spotify, Canva, Shopify and more. Here’s the cause, timeline, and what to do if your site is still impacted. Key points at a glance Cloudflare down today: timeline of the December 5 outage Shortly before 09:00 UTC on December 5, 2025, Cloudflare’s own status page raised a red flag: an incident labeled “Cloudflare Service Issues” noted problems with the Dashboard and Cloudflare APIs, warning that requests might fail or show errors.Cloudflare Status At almost exactly the same time, monitoring