diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/511-cloudflare_dns-verbose-failure.yml b/changelogs/fragments/511-cloudflare_dns-verbose-failure.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5c7908a78f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/511-cloudflare_dns-verbose-failure.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - cloudflare_dns - Report unexpected failure with more detail (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/511).
diff --git a/plugins/modules/net_tools/cloudflare_dns.py b/plugins/modules/net_tools/cloudflare_dns.py
index 48901cab83..7634557129 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/net_tools/cloudflare_dns.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/net_tools/cloudflare_dns.py
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ class CloudflareAPI(object):
                                timeout=self.timeout)
 
         if info['status'] not in [200, 304, 400, 401, 403, 429, 405, 415]:
-            self.module.fail_json(msg="Failed API call {0}; got unexpected HTTP code {1}".format(api_call, info['status']))
+            self.module.fail_json(msg="Failed API call {0}; got unexpected HTTP code {1}: {2}".format(api_call, info['status'], info.get('msg')))
 
         error_msg = ''
         if info['status'] == 401: