Cloudflare outage on May 5 — 1h 8m disruption
May 5, 06:55 PM → May 5, 08:04 PM · 1h 8m · high
Cloudflare experienced a service disruption today, detected by user reports. The incident began at approximately 18:55 UTC and was resolved by 20:04 UTC.
Impact
Users reported a high-severity disruption to Cloudflare services. The majority of reports indicated issues with websites being down, accounting for 20 of the 28 total reports received. Additionally, 8 reports cited API-related problems. No specific regional impact was recorded during this incident, which was initially detected through user reports.
Top reported issues
- Website down20
- API issues8
Incident timeline
- May 5, 06:55 PM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- May 5, 07:00 PM
Peak of 8 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 1.5)
- May 5, 08:04 PM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 5, 06:55 PM
Cloudflare status page acknowledged the incident.
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