diff --git a/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl-status.ts b/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl-status.ts
index 13ea20c4..35dd4d38 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl-status.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl-status.ts
@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ export async function crawlStatusController(req: Request, res: Response) {
 
     if (isCancelled) {
       return res.json({
-        status: "cancelled",
+        status: "failed",
+        docs: null,
+        partialDocs: [],
       });
     }