Cloudflare outage on May 4 — 1h 3m disruption
May 4, 01:46 PM → May 4, 02:49 PM · 1h 3m · high
On May 4, 2026, Cloudflare experienced a high-severity service disruption. This incident was detected through user reports and lasted for 1 hour and 3 minutes. Service was fully restored at 14:49 UTC.
Impact
Users reported experiencing issues with Cloudflare services, leading to a total of 28 reports during the incident. The most frequently reported issues included websites being down, accounting for 20 reports, and slow or unresponsive service, with 8 reports. No specific top impacted regions were recorded during this period. The disruption was primarily identified through these user-submitted reports.
Top reported issues
- Website down20
- Slow / unresponsive8
Incident timeline
- May 4, 01:46 PM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- May 4, 02:00 PM
Peak of 8 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 4.0)
- May 4, 02:13 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 4, 02:23 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 4, 02:28 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 4, 02:49 PM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 4, 01:46 PM
Cloudflare status page acknowledged the incident.
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