Cloudflare outage on May 5 — 3 minute disruption
May 5, 08:16 PM → May 5, 08:19 PM · 3 minutes · high
A high-severity incident impacted Cloudflare services on May 5, 2026. The issue began at 20:16:09.882Z and was resolved at 20:19:17.311Z, resulting in a total disruption of 3 minutes. This incident was detected via user reports.
Impact
Users reported that their websites were down during this incident. A total of 4 user reports were received during the 3-minute outage. The issue was observed across multiple regions, though no specific region was identified as the top impacted area. The incident was automatically resolved by our monitoring systems.
Top reported issues
- Website down4
Incident timeline
- May 5, 08:16 PM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- May 5, 08:19 PM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 5, 08:16 PM
Cloudflare status page acknowledged the incident.
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