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// Incident Post-MortemDRN-08935CC1

Fortnite outage on May 18, 2026

Minor severityResolved42 minGaming
Started · UTC
May 18, 11:42 PM
4d ago
Resolved · UTC
May 19, 12:24 AM
4d ago
Duration
42 min
End-to-end
Peak confidence
24.00
17 snapshots
// User impact

Fortnite users likely saw failed connections, degraded availability, or session instability for this Gaming service. The incident reached Minor severity and lasted 42 min. The stored report window does not show a preserved user-report spike.

// What happened

Downrightnow’s signals for Fortnite look normal: DNS is resolving, user reports are quiet, and there’s no unusual chatter or regional network anomaly. Epic Games’ official status page lists scheduled “EOS Maintenance (Sessions and Lobbies)” for the Lobbies and Sessions components on 2026-05-26, so any impact should be limited to those areas rather than a broad Fortnite outage.

Cached · Mon, May 18, 2026, 11:54 PM UTC · scope: this incident

// Timeline

  1. Status changed to Possible Issues

    The stored readout moved to Possible Issues with confidence 34.00.

  2. Incident detected

    Minor confidence crossed the incident threshold for Fortnite.

  3. Status changed to Operational

    The stored readout moved to Operational with confidence 75.00.

  4. Marked resolved

    The incident was closed after 42 min of observed impact.

  5. Peak confidence reached

    Confidence peaked at 75.00 while the service was marked Operational.

// Signals by source0 sources

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

// Aggregate evidence

Confidence scoring

24.00

The incident reached 24.00 peak confidence across 17 stored status snapshots.

User reports

0 / 15m

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

Status samples

6 affected

6 snapshots in the window showed degraded, recovering, or major-outage state before recovery.

Recovery signal

Resolved

Recovery was recorded at Tue, May 19, 2026, 12:24 AM UTC.