Auto-drafted postmortem
Cloudflare outage on May 4 — 3-minute disruption
May 4, 04:16 AM → May 4, 04:19 AM · 3 minutes · high
On May 4, 2026, Cloudflare experienced a high-severity service disruption. The incident began at 04:16 UTC and was resolved at 04:19 UTC, lasting approximately 3 minutes.
Peak reports
8
in 15 min
Total reports
4
during the incident
Duration
3 minutes
tracked by PulseWatch
Impact
The disruption was detected through user reports, primarily indicating that websites were down. A total of 4 user reports were received during the incident. No specific regions were recorded as being disproportionately impacted by this event.
Top reported issues
- Website down4
Incident timeline
- May 4, 04:16 AM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- May 4, 04:19 AM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 4, 04:16 AM
Cloudflare status page acknowledged the incident.
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