Cloudflare Outage Disrupts Zoom, LinkedIn & Canva

A Cloudflare outage has hit websites including Zoom, Canva and LinkedIn, just weeks after the internet services provider experienced a major outage lasting hours.

Micheal

Dec 5, 2025 - 21:51

Cloudflare Outage Disrupts Zoom, LinkedIn & Canva

Internet users reported seeing error messages on numerous sites that rely on Cloudflare services on Friday morning, including Downdetector - a website that shows which internet services are currently not working.

Cloudflare said shortly after 9am that it is "is investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs (application programming interfaces)".

The software business said users have seen “a large number of empty pages” as a result, adding that it had implemented a potential fix to the issue and is now monitoring the results.

Users reported issues with websites including Zoom, LinkedIn, Shopify and Canva, while Indian-based stock broker Groww also said it was facing technical issues "due to a global outage at Cloudflare". Its services have now been restored, and many sites were back online shortly after the outage.

After coming back online, DownDetector recorded more than 4,500 reports related to issues at Cloudflare.
It comes only three weeks after previous problems at Cloudflare hit the likes of X, ChatGPT, Spotify and multiplayer games, such as League of Legends.

Cloudflare provides network and security services for many online businesses in order to help their websites and applications operate. It claims that around 20% of all websites use some form of its services.

CTO Dane Knecht posted on X: "We are aware of the issue impacting the availability of Cloudflare’s network.

"It was not an attack; root cause was disabling some logging to help mitigate this week’s React CVE.

"Will share full details in a blog post today. Sites should be back online now, but I understand the frustration this causes."

Jake Moore, global cybersecurity adviser at ESET, said: "If a major provider like Cloudflare goes down for any reason, thousands of websites instantly become unreachable.

"The problems often lie with the fact we are using an old network to direct internet users around the world to websites but it simply highlights there is one huge single point of failure in this legacy design."