Cloudflare outage on May 4 — 48 minutes disruption
May 4, 06:30 PM → May 4, 07:19 PM · 48 minutes · high
A high-severity incident impacted Cloudflare services on May 4, 2026. The issue began at 18:30:47 UTC and was resolved at 19:19:20 UTC, resulting in a total disruption of 48 minutes. This incident was detected via user reports.
Impact
During this incident, users reported that their websites were down or experiencing slow and unresponsive behavior. The issue was detected by PulseWatch through user reports, with a peak of 10 reports in a 15-minute window and a total of 24 reports during the event. No specific regions were identified as being more impacted than others.
Top reported issues
- Website down16
- Slow / unresponsive8
Incident timeline
- May 4, 06:30 PM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- May 4, 06:45 PM
Peak of 8 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 1.5)
- May 4, 06:53 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 4, 06:58 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 4, 07:19 PM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 4, 06:30 PM
Cloudflare status page acknowledged the incident.
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