Cloudflare outage on May 16, 2026
Cloudflare users likely saw failed connections, degraded availability, or session instability for this Cloud service. The incident reached Minor severity and lasted 6h 4m. The stored report window does not show a preserved user-report spike.
Cloudflare's official status page is currently reporting scheduled maintenance for several global sites and components including Austin (AUS), Newark (EWR), and Rulesets Configuration. While regional telemetry shows performance degradation in 29 locations such as Norfolk (ORF) and Christchurch (CHC), Downrightnow’s signals suggest a limited impact as DNS is resolving normally and user reports remain quiet. This appears to be a series of localized or component-specific events rather than a broad infrastructure outage.
Cached · Sat, May 23, 2026, 04:00 AM UTC · scope: service signals
Status changed to Possible Issues
The stored readout moved to Possible Issues with confidence 36.00.
Incident detected
Minor confidence crossed the incident threshold for Cloudflare: r2 and Durable Objects increased errors in Eastern North America.
Marked resolved
The incident was closed after 6h 4m of observed impact.
- Official status
Www.Cloudflarestatus.Com reported an open incident, Bot Management Issues (Bot Management, Bot Management) · impact: minor
01:30 AM UTC
Confidence scoring
45.00The incident reached 45.00 peak confidence across 70 stored status snapshots.
User reports
0 / 15mNo elevated user-report volume was preserved in the incident window snapshots.
Status samples
70 affected70 snapshots in the window showed degraded, recovering, or major-outage state before recovery.
Recovery signal
ResolvedRecovery was recorded at Sat, May 16, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC.