Cloudflare outage on May 1 — 31-minute disruption
May 1, 11:16 AM → May 1, 11:48 AM · 31 minutes · high
Cloudflare experienced a service disruption that was initially detected through user reports. This incident began at 11:16 UTC on May 1, 2026, and was resolved by 11:48 UTC on the same day.
Impact
During the incident, users primarily reported issues categorized as 'Website down'. We received a total of 8 user reports throughout the disruption, with a peak of 11 reports within a 15-minute period. No specific impacted regions were recorded during this time. The disruption lasted for approximately 31 minutes, affecting users attempting to access services relying on Cloudflare.
Top reported issues
- Website down8
Incident timeline
- May 1, 11:16 AM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- May 1, 11:30 AM
Peak of 4 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 4.0)
- May 1, 11:48 AM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 1, 11:16 AM
Cloudflare status page acknowledged the incident.
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