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// Incident Post-MortemDRN-835005C1

Stripe outage on May 19, 2026

Minor severityResolved6h 3mPayments
Started · UTC
May 19, 05:09 PM
3d ago
Resolved · UTC
May 19, 11:12 PM
3d ago
Duration
6h 3m
End-to-end
Peak confidence
29.00
60 snapshots
// User impact

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

// What happened

Stripe's official status page is reporting a Partially Degraded Service. Current signals are mixed, with DNS resolving normally and no user reports or chatter indicating widespread issues. This suggests the degradation may be localized or affect specific functionalities.

Cached · Tue, May 19, 2026, 10:24 PM UTC · scope: this incident

// Timeline
  1. Status changed to Possible Issues

    The stored readout moved to Possible Issues with confidence 38.00.

  2. Incident detected

    Minor confidence crossed the incident threshold for Stripe.

  3. Status changed to Degraded Performance

    The stored readout moved to Degraded Performance with confidence 38.00.

  4. Status changed to Possible Issues

    The stored readout moved to Possible Issues with confidence 38.00.

  5. Status changed to Degraded Performance

    The stored readout moved to Degraded Performance with confidence 38.00.

  6. Marked resolved

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

  7. Peak confidence reached

    Confidence peaked at 38.00 while the service was marked Degraded Performance.

// Signals by source0 sources

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

// Aggregate evidence

Confidence scoring

29.00

The incident reached 29.00 peak confidence across 60 stored status snapshots.

User reports

0 / 15m

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

Status samples

14 affected

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

Recovery signal

Resolved

Recovery was recorded at Tue, May 19, 2026, 11:12 PM UTC.