Azure outage on May 18, 2026
Azure users likely saw failed connections, degraded availability, or session instability for this Cloud service. The incident reached Minor severity and lasted 1h. The stored report window does not show a preserved user-report spike.
Impact Statement: Starting from 13:59 UTC on 18 May 2026, customers using Microsoft Fabric - including Power BI and PowerBI Embedded - may be experiencing delays or failures while interacting with the service. This issue is affecting multiple regions in the Azure public cloud. Current Status: We are aware of this issue and are actively investigating. Our analysis indicates that an unexpected increase in request traffic is causing a portion of the infrastructure to operate below optimal levels. Our on-call engineering teams are investigating relevant mitigations. There is no workaround availabl
Deterministic readout · awaiting AI summary pass
Incident detected
Minor confidence crossed the incident threshold for Azure: active - Microsoft Fabric / Power BI / Power BI Embedded - Degraded performance in multiple regions.
Marked resolved
The incident was closed after 1h of observed impact.
No per-source signal payloads were preserved in this incident's snapshot window.
Confidence scoring
45.00The incident reached 45.00 peak confidence across available stored status snapshots.
User reports
0 / 15mNo elevated user-report volume was preserved in the incident window snapshots.
Status samples
0 affectedThe incident row exists, but the bounded snapshot window does not include affected status samples.
Recovery signal
ResolvedRecovery was recorded at Mon, May 18, 2026, 06:24 PM UTC.