Cloudflare outage on May 3 8h 48m disruption
May 3, 12:01 PM → May 3, 08:49 PM · 8h 48m · high
A service disruption affecting Cloudflare was detected on May 3, 2026. This incident, initially identified through user reports, began at approximately 12:01 UTC and was resolved by 20:49 UTC on the same day.
Impact
During the 8-hour and 48-minute incident, a total of 196 user reports were received, with a peak of 13 reports within a 15-minute period. The most frequently reported issues included websites being down (144 reports), slow or unresponsive service (32 reports), and login difficulties (20 reports). No specific regional impact was identified from the user reports.
Top reported issues
- Website down144
- Slow / unresponsive32
- Login issues20
Incident timeline
- May 3, 12:01 PM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- May 3, 12:15 PM
Peak of 8 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 1.5)
- May 3, 12:23 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 3, 12:28 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 3, 12:38 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 3, 12:43 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 3, 12:53 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 3, 12:58 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 3, 01:08 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 3, 01:13 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 3, 04:09 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 3, 08:49 PM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 3, 12:01 PM
Cloudflare status page acknowledged the incident.
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