Cloudflare outage on May 18, 2026

Cloudflare users likely saw failed connections, degraded availability, or session instability for this Cloud service. The incident reached Minor severity and lasted 9h 42m. 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

1. 09:15 PM UTC

   Status changed to Possible Issues

   The stored readout moved to Possible Issues with confidence 34.00.

2. 09:45 PM UTC

   Incident detected

   Minor confidence crossed the incident threshold for Cloudflare.

3. 07:27 AM UTC

   Marked resolved

   The incident was closed after 9h 42m of observed impact.

4. 07:51 AM UTC

   Peak confidence reached

   Confidence peaked at 34.00 while the service was marked Possible Issues.

No per-source signal payloads were preserved in this incident's snapshot window.