Cloudflare down: Outage hits trading platforms like Zerodha, Groww and others
Indian stock market investors faced a chaotic trading session today as major brokerage platforms Groww and Zerodha reportedly went down, leaving millions of users unable to access their portfolios. The disruption is linked to a massive global outage at Cloudflare, a critical web infrastructure provider, which has knocked out services for apps and websites worldwide. What is Happening? Starting around 2:00 PM IST on Friday, December 5, 2025, traders began flooding social media platform X (formerly Twitter) with complaints. Users reported being unable to log in, view charts, or place orders. Instead of their dashboards, users are seeing frustrating error messages such as: "500 Internal Server Error" "502 Bad Gateway" "Connection Timed Out" This isn't just an issue with your internet. These errors indicate that the servers acting as a "gateway" (Cloudflare) are failing to connect you to the apps (Zerodha/Groww). Why are Groww and Zerodha Down? T...