Cloudflare outage on May 1 — 31-minute disruption
May 1, 02:46 PM → May 1, 03:18 PM · 31 minutes · high
Cloudflare experienced a service disruption on May 1, 2026, which was detected via user reports. The incident lasted approximately 31 minutes and was resolved at 15:18 UTC.
Impact
Users reported issues primarily related to websites being down and services being slow or unresponsive. A total of 12 user reports were received during the incident, with 'Website down' being the most common issue type, followed by 'Slow / unresponsive'. No specific top impacted regions were recorded during this event.
Top reported issues
- Website down8
- Slow / unresponsive4
Incident timeline
- May 1, 02:46 PM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- May 1, 03:00 PM
Peak of 4 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 4.0)
- May 1, 03:18 PM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 1, 02:46 PM
Cloudflare status page acknowledged the incident.
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