Downrightnow
// Incident Post-MortemDRN-8D459B6C

Grafana outage on May 19, 2026

Minor severityResolved6h 3mMonitoring
Started · UTC
May 19, 07:24 AM
4d ago
Resolved · UTC
May 19, 01:27 PM
4d ago
Duration
6h 3m
End-to-end
Peak confidence
68.00
70 snapshots
// User impact

Grafana users likely saw failed connections, degraded availability, or session instability for this Monitoring service. The incident reached Minor severity and lasted 6h 3m. The stored report window does not show a preserved user-report spike.

// What happened

Grafana is reporting a critical complete outage in prod-me-central-1 affecting metrics ingestion, querying, and the metrics generator in the UAE region. Downrightnow's signals are otherwise quiet with normal DNS resolution and no spike in user reports, suggesting the disruption is currently limited to this specific AWS cluster.

Cached · Tue, May 19, 2026, 12:06 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 Grafana.

  3. Status changed to Partial Outage

    The stored readout moved to Partial Outage with confidence 34.00.

  4. Status changed to Possible Issues

    The stored readout moved to Possible Issues with confidence 36.00.

  5. Status changed to Partial Outage

    The stored readout moved to Partial Outage with confidence 34.00.

  6. Marked resolved

    The incident was closed after 6h 3m of observed impact.

// Signals by source1 sources
  • News scan

    News: Confirms, Grafana Labs is said to be the target of a hacking incident in multiple reports: hackers stole its codebase and a GitHub token, with Grafana reportedly refusing to pay a ransom. These articles describe an attacker breach affecting Grafana's code assets.

    Major
// Aggregate evidence

Confidence scoring

68.00

The incident reached 68.00 peak confidence across 70 stored status snapshots.

User reports

0 / 15m

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

Status samples

38 affected

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

Recovery signal

Resolved

Recovery was recorded at Tue, May 19, 2026, 01:27 PM UTC.