Cloudflare outage on May 5 — 1h 48m disruption
May 5, 09:30 AM → May 5, 11:19 AM · 1h 48m · high
A high-severity incident impacted Cloudflare services on May 5, 2026. The issue began at 09:30:45 UTC and was fully resolved by 11:19:29 UTC, lasting 1 hour and 48 minutes. This incident was detected via user reports.
Impact
Users reported issues with website accessibility and performance, with the primary reported problems being 'Website down' and 'Slow / unresponsive'. A total of 52 user reports were received during the incident, with a peak of 10 reports within a 15-minute window. No specific regions were identified as being disproportionately impacted.
Top reported issues
- Website down32
- Slow / unresponsive20
Incident timeline
- May 5, 09:30 AM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- May 5, 09:45 AM
Peak of 8 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 4.0)
- May 5, 10:23 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 10:28 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 10:38 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 10:43 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 10:53 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 10:58 AM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 11:19 AM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 5, 09:30 AM
Cloudflare status page acknowledged the incident.
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