Cloudflare outage on May 1 — 1h 32m disruption
May 1, 03:00 PM → May 1, 04:33 PM · 1h 32m · high
Cloudflare experienced a service disruption on May 1, 2026. This incident, which was detected via user reports, began at approximately 15:00 UTC and was resolved by 16:33 UTC.
Impact
Users reported a high-severity service disruption affecting Cloudflare. The most frequently reported issues included websites being down, slow or unresponsive services, and API-related problems. A total of 49 user reports were received during the incident. No specific regional concentrations of impact were identified.
Top reported issues
- Website down24
- Slow / unresponsive21
- API issues4
Incident timeline
- May 1, 03:00 PM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- May 1, 04:30 PM
Peak of 9 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 4.0)
- May 1, 04:33 PM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 1, 03:00 PM
Cloudflare status page acknowledged the incident.
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