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Confluent · Data and observabilityAug 20, 2026, 17:10 UTC

Elevated error rates and latency in GCP us-west1

MajorNot disclosedUpdated 20h ago
Aug 20, 17:10 UTCAug 20, 20:18 UTC
Duration
3h 8m
Impact
Major
Root cause
Not disclosed
Confluent, 90 days
16 incidents
Affected
Confluent Cloud
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Final update

The GCP issues in us-west1 region have been mitigated. Confluent services are no longer seeing any impact based on our monitoring.

Timeline

  1. Resolved · Aug 20, 20:18 UTC
    The GCP issues in us-west1 region have been mitigated. Confluent services are no longer seeing any impact based on our monitoring.
  2. Investigating · Aug 20, 19:18 UTC
    We are seeing recovery of Confluent services and are continuing to monitor the situation. The next update will be posted within 1 hour.
  3. Investigating · Aug 20, 17:10 UTC
    We are investigating an incident affecting services in the GCP us-west1 region. Customers with Kafka clusters in this region may experience elevated latency, request timeouts, or increased error rates. Our engineering teams are actively working to restore normal performance.

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