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// Incident Post-MortemDRN-05CA4728

Cloudflare outage on May 19, 2026

Minor severityResolved6h 4mCloud
Started · UTC
May 19, 07:16 PM
3d ago
Resolved · UTC
May 20, 01:20 AM
3d ago
Duration
6h 4m
End-to-end
Peak confidence
45.00
62 snapshots
// User impact

Cloudflare users likely saw failed connections, degraded availability, or session instability for this Cloud service. The incident reached Minor severity and lasted 6h 4m. The stored report window does not show a preserved user-report spike.

// What happened

Downrightnow’s checks indicate minor regional performance issues at 29 Cloudflare locations, including Norfolk (ORF), Christchurch (CHC), and Bogotá (BOG). Cloudflare's official status page also lists upcoming scheduled maintenance for several components, including Singapore (SIN), rulesets configuration, and the Tokyo (NRT) and Melbourne (MEL) regions. Because DNS is resolving normally and user reports remain quiet, these appear to be isolated regional disruptions rather than a broad platform outage.

Cached · Wed, May 20, 2026, 01:30 AM UTC · scope: this incident

// Timeline
  1. Status changed to Degraded Performance

    The stored readout moved to Degraded Performance with confidence 34.00.

  2. Incident detected

    Minor confidence crossed the incident threshold for Cloudflare: intermittent Cloudflare Dashboard SSO login failures with Okta.

  3. Marked resolved

    The incident was closed after 6h 4m of observed impact.

// Signals by source1 sources
  • News scan

    News: No Evidence, The article about Claude Mythos AI exploits across 50 Cloudflare repositories does not describe a Cloudflare outage or degradation; it discusses activity around Cloudflare code rather than service disruption.

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// Aggregate evidence

Confidence scoring

45.00

The incident reached 45.00 peak confidence across 62 stored status snapshots.

User reports

0 / 15m

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

Status samples

0 affected

The incident row exists, but the bounded snapshot window does not include affected status samples.

Recovery signal

Resolved

Recovery was recorded at Wed, May 20, 2026, 01:20 AM UTC.