crates.io outage on May 5 — 24 minute disruption
May 5, 09:13 PM → May 5, 09:38 PM · 24 minutes · high
On May 5, 2026, crates.io experienced an outage that began at 21:13:21 UTC. The issue was resolved at 21:38:20 UTC, resulting in a total disruption of 24 minutes. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Impact
During this incident, users reported that the crates.io website was unavailable. We received a total of 4 reports related to this issue. The incident was detected by PulseWatch based on user reports. No specific regions were identified as being impacted.
Top reported issues
- Website down4
Incident timeline
- May 5, 09:13 PM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- May 5, 09:30 PM
Peak of 0 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 1.3)
- May 5, 09:38 PM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 5, 09:13 PM
crates.io status page acknowledged the incident.
View official source - May 5, 09:38 PM
Website down clustered from 3 sources across 6 signals. Suppressed 5 redundant alerts and flagged flapping behavior.