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Confluent outage history and postmortems

Data and observability · Mountain View, US · 16 incidents in 90 days · 99.40% implied uptime · last 45h ago

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StartedIncidentDuration
Sep 2311:47 UTCConfluent Cloud Console Degraded (All Regions) and Multiple Services Impacted in AWS us-west-211h 30m
Sep 2215:09 UTCElevated error rates in Azure Germany West Central region4h 50m
Sep 2116:15 UTCConfluent Cloud Console Degraded (All Regions) and Multiple Services Impacted in AWS us-west-29h 16m
Sep 1717:49 UTCConfluent Cloud Metrics API experienced elevated latency and error rates0m
Sep 1523:59 UTCMultiple Confluent Cloud services are in a degraded state - All regions1h 22m
Sep 820:01 UTCConnectivity degradation - AWS us-east-117h
Sep 809:17 UTCService Disruption affecting Authentication, Schema Registry, ksqlDB, and Flink in AWS us-east-129h 39m
Sep 116:27 UTCInvestigating Elevated Errors in GCP us-central148m
Aug 2504:17 UTCElevated error rates and latencies in Azure Southeast Asia region3h 12m
Aug 2415:49 UTCConfluent Cloud logging degradation - Connect and Flink0m
Aug 2017:10 UTCElevated error rates and latency in GCP us-west13h 8m
Jul 1722:01 UTCFlink statements degraded in GCP us-central1 region2h 58m
Jul 1523:33 UTCKafka cluster performance degradation for clusters in AWS region eu-central-113h 41m
Jul 1314:25 UTCConfluent Cloud Metrics API is currently experiencing elevated latency and error rates.1h 39m
Jun 2917:44 UTCKafka consumer and producer degradation in Azure spaincentral2h 52m
Jun 2911:40 UTCConfluent Cloud Metrics API is currently experiencing elevated error rates1h 10m
Jun 2515:59 UTCIncreased error rates in Metrics API1h 55m
Jun 2307:00 UTCConfluent Cloud Metrics API unavailable0m
Jun 2107:14 UTCKafka cluster performance degradation for Basic and Standard clusters in AWS US-East-22h 5m
Jun 1616:02 UTCIntermittent Produce/Consume Unavailability in Azure Dedicated clusters1h 57m
Jun 1207:42 UTCConfluent Cloud , Degraded inter-region connectivity , AWS us-west-24h 13m
May 2906:47 UTCElevated error rates and latencies in Azure westus2 region15h 1m
May 2200:21 UTCConnection failures in a set of PNI Gateways for Kafka Clusters in AWS us-east-1 and us-west-21m
May 801:14 UTCElevated error rates and latency on produce and consume operations on AWS us-east-1 AZ427d 15h
Apr 2417:18 UTCSome customers using Confluent Cloud Flink on Azure with PrivateLink connectivity are experiencing issues submitting new Flink statements6h 56m
Apr 2109:34 UTCExperiencing delays in Tableflow external catalog syncs in AWS15m
Apr 119:52 UTCElevated error rates in AWS me-south-1 and me-central-1 regions105d 7h
Mar 504:40 UTCMetrics API was experiencing failures from 03:23 UTC to 03:58 UTC2h 42m
Mar 207:19 UTCElevated error rates in AWS me-south-1 and me-central-1 regions17d 17h
Mar 118:08 UTCElevated Error Rates in AWS me-central-1 region3h 57m
Feb 2619:56 UTCAll new dedicated kafka cluster provisioning and expansion in Azure westus3, southcentralus, and eastus2 are failing6h 1m
Feb 2613:59 UTCNetwork provisioning service in Azure East US region is degraded8h 24m
Feb 2505:01 UTCSome Confluent Cloud customers accessing services in GCP us-south1 region might experience elevated errors rates2d 13h
Feb 2421:15 UTCElevated Kafka REST API Errors in AWS us-west-23h 52m
Feb 2322:12 UTCElevated Kafka Latency in GCP asia-southeast111h 46m
Feb 1122:14 UTCAll new cluster creations in Azure westus3, southcentralus, and eastus2 are failing4h 31m
Feb 321:33 UTCConfluent Cloud Service Outage3h 15m
Jan 812:30 UTCMultiple customers are reporting networking instability in the Azure West Europe region3h 55m
Dec 1611:02 UTCMetrics API /export endpoint emitting 400 errors0m
Dec 817:48 UTCMissing metrics in some Confluent Cloud Kafka clusters34h 59m
About Confluent

Confluent, Inc. is an American technology company headquartered in Mountain View, California.

The last year, day by day

No incident Minor Major CriticalDeeper colour: longer outage

Downtime, added up

Data and observability median
12h 56m

Confluent: 12h 56m weighted downtime in range, category median 2h 1m.

16 incidents, 7 major or critical, 3d 12h of incident time (2d 2h major or critical, 34h 8m partial), longest 29h 39m, implied uptime 99.40%, between Jun 28, 2026 and Sep 25, 2026.

Stated causes

54 incidents with no cause stated.

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Questions

Is Confluent down right now?

Check Confluent's own status page at https://status.confluent.cloud for the live state. This page shows Confluent's incident history from that page; the most recent incident started 2026-09-23: "Confluent Cloud Console Degraded (All Regions) and Multiple Services Impacted in AWS us-west-2".

How often does Confluent have outages?

Confluent posted 16 incidents in the last 90 days and 55 in the last year, 7 of them major or critical in the last 90 days. The median incident lasted 3h 3m.

When was Confluent's last major outage?

2026-09-23: "Confluent Cloud Console Degraded (All Regions) and Multiple Services Impacted in AWS us-west-2", lasting 11h 30m.

What usually causes Confluent incidents?

Where Confluent explained the cause, the most common was configuration change (1 incidents). Most status updates do not name a cause.

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