Cloudflare outage on May 4 "," 3h 48m disruption
May 4, 04:01 AM → May 4, 07:49 AM · 3h 48m · high
Cloudflare experienced a service disruption on May 4, 2026, which was detected through user reports. The incident began at approximately 04:01 UTC and was fully resolved by 07:49 UTC on the same day.
Impact
The service disruption was characterized by a high severity, with a total of 104 user reports received during the incident. The most frequently reported issues included websites being down, accounting for 64 reports, and slow or unresponsive service, with 40 reports. While no specific top impacted regions were recorded, the widespread nature of the reports indicates a broad impact on users attempting to access services relying on Cloudflare. The incident was initially detected through these user reports.
Top reported issues
- Website down64
- Slow / unresponsive40
Incident timeline
- May 4, 04:01 AM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- May 4, 04:15 AM
Peak of 8 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 4.0)
- May 4, 07:49 AM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 4, 04:01 AM
Cloudflare status page acknowledged the incident.
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