Cloudflare outage on May 5 A 48-minute disruption
May 5, 02:00 PM → May 5, 02:49 PM · 48 minutes · high
A service disruption affecting Cloudflare was detected, initially identified through user reports. The incident lasted approximately 48 minutes. Service was fully restored at 2:49 PM UTC on May 5, 2026.
Impact
Users primarily reported issues with websites being down, accounting for 16 reports, and slow or unresponsive performance, which made up 4 reports. The disruption was initially identified through user reports, with a total of 20 reports received during the incident. No specific top impacted regions were recorded during this period.
Top reported issues
- Website down16
- Slow / unresponsive4
Incident timeline
- May 5, 02:00 PM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- May 5, 02:15 PM
Peak of 4 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 1.5)
- May 5, 02:49 PM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 5, 02:00 PM
Cloudflare status page acknowledged the incident.
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