Elevated Kafka Latency in GCP asia-southeast1

Final update

The issue was resolved successfully. All systems working as expected.

1. Resolved · Feb 24, 09:58 UTC
   The issue was resolved successfully. All systems working as expected.
2. Monitoring · Feb 24, 07:27 UTC
   GCP has identified the root cause and has fixed the same. Currently monitoring.
3. Investigating · Feb 24, 00:23 UTC
   We are continuing to investigate this issue with GCP. GCP is actively working on applying mitigation.
4. Investigating · Feb 23, 22:18 UTC
   We are continuing to investigate this issue.
5. Investigating · Feb 23, 22:17 UTC
   Starting 2/21/2026, 21:00 UTC We are observing Elevated Kafka Latency in GCP asia-southeast1 region for less than 0.1% of produce and fetch requests for some customers. Median latencies for both produce and fetch requests are not impacted. We are actively working with GCP to identify the root cause of the issue. We will provide next update in 2 hours or earlier.
6. Investigating · Feb 23, 22:12 UTC
   We are currently investigating this issue.