Downrightnow
// Incident Post-MortemDRN-D948C436

Cloudflare outage on May 20, 2026

Minor severityResolved6h 4mCloud
Started · UTC
May 20, 01:06 PM
3d ago
Resolved · UTC
May 20, 07:10 PM
2d ago
Duration
6h 4m
End-to-end
Peak confidence
45.00
63 snapshots
// User impact

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.

// What happened

Cloudflare's official status page is reporting a Minor Service Outage, though Downrightnow's signals currently show mixed results. Official scheduled maintenance is also set for several global locations including Phoenix, Chennai, and Tokyo, alongside upcoming work on Rulesets Configuration and Storage Systems. Because DNS is resolving normally and user reports are quiet, any current performance issues appear localized to specific network regions.

Cached · Wed, May 20, 2026, 07:15 PM UTC · scope: this incident

// Timeline

  1. Status changed to Degraded Performance

    The stored readout moved to Degraded Performance with confidence 34.00.

  2. Incident detected

    Minor confidence crossed the incident threshold for Cloudflare: increased HTTP 502 Errors in Buenos Aires.

  3. Marked resolved

    The incident was closed after 6h 4m of observed impact.

// Signals by source0 sources

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

// Aggregate evidence

Confidence scoring

45.00

The incident reached 45.00 peak confidence across 63 stored status snapshots.

User reports

0 / 15m

No elevated user-report volume was preserved in the incident window snapshots.

Status samples

0 affected

The incident row exists, but the bounded snapshot window does not include affected status samples.

Recovery signal

Resolved

Recovery was recorded at Wed, May 20, 2026, 07:10 PM UTC.