Cloudflare outage on May 1 46-minute disruption
May 1, 12:16 PM → May 1, 01:03 PM · 46 minutes · high
Cloudflare experienced a service disruption on May 1, 2026, which was detected through user reports. The incident lasted approximately 46 minutes and was resolved at 13:03 UTC.
Impact
Users primarily reported issues related to websites being down. The disruption was first detected through user reports, with a peak of 18 reports within a 15-minute period. A total of 16 unique reports of 'Website down' were received during the incident's 46-minute duration. No specific regional impact was recorded.
Top reported issues
- Website down16
Incident timeline
- May 1, 12:16 PM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- May 1, 12:30 PM
Peak of 8 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 4.0)
- May 1, 01:03 PM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 1, 12:16 PM
Cloudflare status page acknowledged the incident.
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