Battle.net outage on May 5 — 19-minute disruption
May 5, 03:58 AM → May 5, 04:18 AM · 19 minutes · high
Battle.net experienced a service disruption on May 5, 2026, which was detected through user reports. The incident began at approximately 03:58 UTC and was resolved by 04:18 UTC.
Impact
During the disruption, users primarily reported issues with the Battle.net website being inaccessible. A total of four user reports were received, with 'Website down' being the top reported issue type. No specific regional impact was recorded during this incident.
Top reported issues
- Website down4
Incident timeline
- May 5, 03:58 AM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- May 5, 04:00 AM
Peak of 0 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 1.3)
- May 5, 04:18 AM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 5, 04:18 AM
Website down clustered from 3 sources across 6 signals. Suppressed 5 redundant alerts and flagged flapping behavior.