Cloudflare outage on May 4 — 3-minute disruption
May 4, 01:16 AM → May 4, 01:19 AM · 3 minutes · high
Cloudflare experienced a brief service disruption on May 4, 2026, which was detected via user reports and third-party monitoring. The incident began at 01:16 UTC and was resolved by 01:19 UTC.
Impact
During the brief disruption, users primarily reported issues with websites being inaccessible. Our monitoring system grouped 10 related "Website down" alerts into one incident, with a total of 4 user reports received. The impact was observed across services utilizing Cloudflare, though no specific regional concentrations of impact were recorded. The predominant issue type reported was "Website down".
Top reported issues
- Website down4
Incident timeline
- May 4, 01:16 AM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- May 4, 01:19 AM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 4, 01:16 AM
Cloudflare status page acknowledged the incident.
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