Netlify outage on May 5 — 1h 4m disruption
May 5, 05:43 PM → May 5, 06:48 PM · 1h 4m · medium
On May 5, 2026, Netlify experienced a service disruption, which was detected through user reports. The incident began at 17:43 UTC and was resolved by 18:48 UTC on the same day.
Impact
Users reported issues with Netlify services, primarily experiencing their websites being down. Other reported issues included general cloud provider issues and instances of slow or unresponsive service. A total of 24 user reports were received during the incident, with a peak of 8 reports within a 15-minute period. No specific top impacted regions were recorded during this event.
Top reported issues
- Website down12
- Cloud provider issues9
- Slow / unresponsive3
Incident timeline
- May 5, 05:43 PM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (medium severity)
- May 5, 05:45 PM
Peak of 8 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 1.3)
- May 5, 06:08 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 06:13 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 06:23 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 06:28 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 06:48 PM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 5, 05:43 PM
Netlify status page acknowledged the incident.
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