Cloudflare outage on May 1 — 3h 42m disruption
May 1, 04:16 PM → May 1, 07:58 PM · 3h 42m · high
A service disruption affecting Cloudflare was detected through user reports starting on May 1, 2026, at 16:16 UTC. Users experienced issues across various services. The incident was resolved on May 1, 2026, at 19:58 UTC.
Impact
During the incident, a total of 134 user reports were received, with a peak of 22 reports within a 15-minute period. The most frequently reported issues included websites being down (60 reports), slow or unresponsive service (54 reports), and API-related problems (20 reports). Specific regional impacts were not recorded. These reports indicated a high severity disruption to Cloudflare services.
Top reported issues
- Website down60
- Slow / unresponsive54
- API issues20
Incident timeline
- May 1, 04:16 PM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- May 1, 04:30 PM
Peak of 13 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 4.0)
- May 1, 07:58 PM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 1, 04:16 PM
Cloudflare status page acknowledged the incident.
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