Grafana outage on May 19, 2026
Grafana users likely saw failed connections, degraded availability, or session instability for this Monitoring service. The incident reached Minor severity and lasted 6h 3m. The stored report window does not show a preserved user-report spike.
Grafana is reporting a critical complete outage in prod-me-central-1 affecting metrics ingestion, querying, and the metrics generator in the UAE region. Downrightnow's signals are otherwise quiet with normal DNS resolution and no spike in user reports, suggesting the disruption is currently limited to this specific AWS cluster.
Cached · Tue, May 19, 2026, 12:06 PM UTC · scope: this incident
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 Grafana.
Status changed to Partial Outage
The stored readout moved to Partial Outage with confidence 34.00.
Status changed to Possible Issues
The stored readout moved to Possible Issues with confidence 36.00.
Status changed to Partial Outage
The stored readout moved to Partial Outage with confidence 34.00.
Marked resolved
The incident was closed after 6h 3m of observed impact.
- News scan
News: Confirms, Grafana Labs is said to be the target of a hacking incident in multiple reports: hackers stole its codebase and a GitHub token, with Grafana reportedly refusing to pay a ransom. These articles describe an attacker breach affecting Grafana's code assets.
Major
Confidence scoring
68.00The incident reached 68.00 peak confidence across 70 stored status snapshots.
User reports
0 / 15mNo elevated user-report volume was preserved in the incident window snapshots.
Status samples
38 affected38 snapshots in the window showed degraded, recovering, or major-outage state before recovery.
Recovery signal
ResolvedRecovery was recorded at Tue, May 19, 2026, 01:27 PM UTC.