Cloudflare outage on May 5 — 33 minutes disruption
May 5, 08:15 AM → May 5, 08:49 AM · 33 minutes · high
A high-severity incident impacted Cloudflare services on May 5, 2026. The issue began at 08:15:44 UTC and was resolved at 08:49:17 UTC, lasting 33 minutes. The incident was detected via user reports.
Impact
Users reported experiencing website downtime and slow or unresponsive service during this incident. A total of 16 user reports were received during the outage. The issue was observed across multiple report types, with 'Website down' being the most frequent. No specific regions were identified as being disproportionately impacted.
Top reported issues
- Website down12
- Slow / unresponsive4
Incident timeline
- May 5, 08:15 AM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- May 5, 08:30 AM
Peak of 4 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 1.5)
- May 5, 08:49 AM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 5, 08:15 AM
Cloudflare status page acknowledged the incident.
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