Cloudflare outage on May 18, 2026
Cloudflare users likely saw failed connections, degraded availability, or session instability for this Cloud service. The incident reached Minor severity and lasted 9h 42m. The stored report window does not show a preserved user-report spike.
Cloudflare's official status page is reporting a Minor Service Outage, and regional data shows performance degradation in 29 locations including ORF (Norfolk, US), CHC (Christchurch, NZ), and PER (Perth, Australia). The provider has also scheduled maintenance for Plusieurs PoPs and systems, including Rulesets Configuration and the Austin, Newark, and Tokyo regions, over the coming weeks. Despite these specific regional disruptions, Downrightnow's signals and user reports remain otherwise quiet.
Cached · Sat, May 23, 2026, 03:16 AM UTC · scope: service signals
Status changed to Possible Issues
The stored readout moved to Possible Issues with confidence 34.00.
Incident detected
Minor confidence crossed the incident threshold for Cloudflare.
Marked resolved
The incident was closed after 9h 42m of observed impact.
Peak confidence reached
Confidence peaked at 34.00 while the service was marked Possible Issues.
No per-source signal payloads were preserved in this incident's snapshot window.
Confidence scoring
24.00The incident reached 24.00 peak confidence across 107 stored status snapshots.
User reports
0 / 15mNo elevated user-report volume was preserved in the incident window snapshots.
Status samples
107 affected107 snapshots in the window showed degraded, recovering, or major-outage state before recovery.
Recovery signal
ResolvedRecovery was recorded at Tue, May 19, 2026, 07:27 AM UTC.