Cloudflare outage on May 2 1d 5h disruption
May 2, 03:24 PM → May 3, 09:04 PM · 1d 5h · high
A significant service disruption affecting Cloudflare was detected on May 2, 2026, primarily through user reports. The incident, which lasted approximately 1 day and 5 hours, impacted various services relying on Cloudflare infrastructure. Normal service was fully restored on May 3, 2026, at 21:04 UTC.
Impact
Users reported a widespread disruption to services relying on Cloudflare, with a total of 546 reports received during the incident. The most frequently reported issues included websites being down, accounting for 482 reports. Additionally, users experienced slow or unresponsive services (44 reports) and login difficulties (20 reports). While no specific regional impact was recorded, the nature of the reports suggests a broad impact across various online services. This incident was initially detected and tracked based on these user-submitted reports.
Top reported issues
- Website down482
- Slow / unresponsive44
- Login issues20
Incident timeline
- May 2, 03:24 PM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- May 2, 03:53 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 03:58 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 04:08 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 04:13 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 07:53 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 2, 07:58 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 3, 11:30 AM
Peak of 8 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 1.5)
- May 3, 11:38 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 3, 11:43 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 3, 09:04 PM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 2, 03:24 PM
Cloudflare status page acknowledged the incident.
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