Cloudflare outage on May 2 — 1d 16h disruption
May 2, 06:16 AM → May 3, 10:19 PM · 1d 16h · high
Cloudflare experienced a service disruption beginning on May 2, 2026, which was detected through user reports. The issue was resolved on May 3, 2026, at 22:19 UTC, after approximately 1 day and 16 hours.
Impact
During the incident, a total of 772 user reports were received, indicating a high severity disruption. The most frequently reported issues included websites being down (656 reports), slow or unresponsive service (96 reports), and login difficulties (20 reports). No specific regions were identified as disproportionately impacted by this disruption. This widespread impact on website accessibility and performance was consistent with the reported issue types.
Top reported issues
- Website down656
- Slow / unresponsive96
- Login issues20
Incident timeline
- May 2, 06:16 AM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- May 2, 06:43 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 06:53 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 06:58 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 07:08 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 07:13 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 07:23 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 07:28 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 07:38 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 07:43 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 3, 11:30 AM
Peak of 8 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 1.5)
- May 3, 10:19 PM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 2, 06:16 AM
Cloudflare status page acknowledged the incident.
View official source - May 3, 10:19 PM
Root cause: Transient performance degradation with flapping behavior.