Cloudflare outage on May 2 — 1d 18h disruption
May 2, 04:00 AM → May 3, 10:34 PM · 1d 18h · high
Cloudflare experienced a service disruption beginning on May 2, 2026. This incident was detected through user reports indicating widespread issues. The disruption was resolved on May 3, 2026, at 22:34 UTC.
Impact
During the incident, users reported a range of issues, with a total of 828 reports received. The most frequently reported problem was websites being down, accounting for 700 reports. Additionally, 108 users experienced slow or unresponsive services, and 20 users reported login difficulties. No specific top impacted regions were recorded, suggesting a broad impact across the user base.
Top reported issues
- Website down700
- Slow / unresponsive108
- Login issues20
Incident timeline
- May 2, 04:00 AM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- May 2, 04:23 AM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 2, 04:28 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 04:43 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 04:53 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 04:58 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 2, 06:38 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 3, 11:30 AM
Peak of 8 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 1.5)
- May 3, 10:34 PM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 2, 04:00 AM
Cloudflare status page acknowledged the incident.
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