Auto-drafted postmortem
Cloudflare outage on May 1 — 1h 2m disruption
May 1, 01:01 PM → May 1, 02:03 PM · 1h 2m · high
Cloudflare experienced a service disruption on May 1, 2026. This incident was detected through user reports and was resolved by 14:03 UTC on the same day.
Peak reports
10
in 15 min
Total reports
24
during the incident
Duration
1h 2m
tracked by PulseWatch
Impact
During the incident, users reported issues primarily related to websites being down and services being slow or unresponsive. A total of 24 user reports were received, with a peak of 10 reports within a 15-minute period. No specific regional impact was recorded during this time.
Top reported issues
- Website down16
- Slow / unresponsive8
Incident timeline
- May 1, 01:01 PM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- May 1, 01:15 PM
Peak of 8 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 4.0)
- May 1, 02:03 PM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 1, 01:01 PM
Cloudflare status page acknowledged the incident.
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