Cloudflare outage on May 1 — 1h 8m disruption
May 1, 05:39 PM → May 1, 06:48 PM · 1h 8m · high
Cloudflare experienced a service disruption on May 1, 2026. This outage was detected through user reports and confirmed by PulseWatch monitoring. The issue was resolved at 18:48 UTC on the same day.
Impact
Users reported various issues, including websites being down, API functionality problems, and general slowness or unresponsiveness. A total of 37 reports were received during the incident, with 'Website down' being the most frequently reported issue type, followed by 'API issues' and 'Slow / unresponsive'. No specific regional impact was identified during this period.
Top reported issues
- Website down16
- API issues12
- Slow / unresponsive9
Incident timeline
- May 1, 05:39 PM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- May 1, 05:45 PM
Peak of 13 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 4.0)
- May 1, 06:48 PM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 1, 05:39 PM
Cloudflare status page acknowledged the incident.
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