Cloudflare CDN outage on May 4 — 5h 20m disruption
May 4, 09:58 PM → May 5, 03:19 AM · 5h 20m · medium
An incident affecting Cloudflare CDN services was detected on May 4, 2026. This disruption was identified through user reports and resolved on May 5, 2026.
Impact
Users reported issues with Cloudflare CDN services during the incident. A total of 287 reports were received, with the most common issue types being "Cloud provider issues" and "Website down." No specific regional impact was observed or recorded. These reports indicated a general disruption to services relying on Cloudflare CDN.
Top reported issues
- Cloud provider issues195
- Website down92
Incident timeline
- May 4, 09:58 PM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (medium severity)
- May 5, 12:45 AM
Peak of 14 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 10.0)
- May 5, 12:53 AM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 12:58 AM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 03:19 AM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 4, 09:58 PM
Cloudflare CDN status page acknowledged the incident.
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