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// Incident Post-MortemDRN-D01DFD95

Grafana outage on May 17, 2026

Major severityResolved10h 54mMonitoring
Started · UTC
May 17, 08:15 AM
6d ago
Resolved · UTC
May 17, 07:09 PM
5d ago
Duration
10h 54m
End-to-end
Peak confidence
80.00
80 snapshots
// User impact

Grafana users likely saw failed connections, degraded availability, or session instability for this Monitoring service. The incident reached Major severity and lasted 10h 54m. The stored report window does not show a preserved user-report spike.

// What happened

Grafana's official status page is reporting a critical complete outage in prod-me-central-1 (AWS UAE) affecting several components including API, Querying, and Ingestion. Current signals suggest the impact is regionally isolated, as Downrightnow's checks show DNS is resolving normally and user reports remain quiet elsewhere. Additionally, a maintenance for Status Page Improvements is scheduled for Grafana.com on May 28th.

Cached · Fri, May 22, 2026, 08:04 PM UTC · scope: service signals

// Timeline

  1. Status changed to Possible Issues

    The stored readout moved to Possible Issues with confidence 34.00.

  2. Incident detected

    Major confidence crossed the incident threshold for Grafana.

  3. Marked resolved

    The incident was closed after 10h 54m of observed impact.

// Signals by source1 sources
  • News scan

    News: Too Early, No matching news yet for this signal.

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// Aggregate evidence

Confidence scoring

80.00

The incident reached 80.00 peak confidence across 80 stored status snapshots.

User reports

0 / 15m

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

Status samples

80 affected

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

Recovery signal

Resolved

Recovery was recorded at Sun, May 17, 2026, 07:09 PM UTC.