ConfluentOutage history and postmortems
Downtime, added up
Confluent: 12h 56m weighted downtime in range, category median 2h 28m.
16 incidents, 3d 12h of incident time (2d 2h major or critical, 34h 8m partial) between Jun 27, 2026 and Sep 24, 2026.
Confluent, Inc. is an American technology company headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Stated causes
54 incidents with no cause stated.
Confluent incidents
55 on fileConfluent Cloud Console Degraded (All Regions) and Multiple Services Impacted in AWS us-west-2Sep 23, 2026, 11:4711h 30mMajorNot disclosed
Elevated error rates in Azure Germany West Central regionSep 22, 2026, 15:094h 50mMajorNot disclosed
Confluent Cloud Console Degraded (All Regions) and Multiple Services Impacted in AWS us-west-2Sep 21, 2026, 16:159h 16mMajorNot disclosed
Confluent Cloud Metrics API experienced elevated latency and error ratesSep 17, 2026, 17:490mInformationalNot disclosed
Multiple Confluent Cloud services are in a degraded state - All regionsSep 15, 2026, 23:591h 22mMajorNot disclosed
Connectivity degradation - AWS us-east-1Sep 8, 2026, 20:0117hMajorNot disclosed
Service Disruption affecting Authentication, Schema Registry, ksqlDB, and Flink in AWS us-east-1Sep 8, 2026, 09:1729h 39mMinorNot disclosed
Investigating Elevated Errors in GCP us-central1Sep 1, 2026, 16:2748mMinorNot disclosed
Elevated error rates and latencies in Azure Southeast Asia regionAug 25, 2026, 04:173h 12mMajorNot disclosed
Confluent Cloud logging degradation - Connect and FlinkAug 24, 2026, 15:490mInformationalNot disclosed
Elevated error rates and latency in GCP us-west1Aug 20, 2026, 17:103h 8mMajorNot disclosed
Flink statements degraded in GCP us-central1 regionJul 17, 2026, 22:012h 58mMinorNot disclosed
Kafka cluster performance degradation for clusters in AWS region eu-central-1Jul 15, 2026, 23:3313h 41mMinorNot disclosed
Confluent Cloud Metrics API is currently experiencing elevated latency and error rates.Jul 13, 2026, 14:251h 39mInformationalNot disclosed
Kafka consumer and producer degradation in Azure spaincentralJun 29, 2026, 17:442h 52mMinorNot disclosed
Confluent Cloud Metrics API is currently experiencing elevated error ratesJun 29, 2026, 11:401h 10mMinorNot disclosed
Increased error rates in Metrics APIJun 25, 2026, 15:591h 55mMajorNot disclosed
Confluent Cloud Metrics API unavailableJun 23, 2026, 07:000mInformationalNot disclosed
Kafka cluster performance degradation for Basic and Standard clusters in AWS US-East-2Jun 21, 2026, 07:142h 5mMinorNot disclosed
Intermittent Produce/Consume Unavailability in Azure Dedicated clustersJun 16, 2026, 16:021h 57mMinorNot disclosed
Confluent Cloud , Degraded inter-region connectivity , AWS us-west-2Jun 12, 2026, 07:424h 13mMajorNot disclosed
Elevated error rates and latencies in Azure westus2 regionMay 29, 2026, 06:4715h 1mMajorNot disclosed
Connection failures in a set of PNI Gateways for Kafka Clusters in AWS us-east-1 and us-west-2May 22, 2026, 00:211mMajorNot disclosed
Elevated error rates and latency on produce and consume operations on AWS us-east-1 AZ4May 8, 2026, 01:1427d 15hMajorNot disclosed
Some customers using Confluent Cloud Flink on Azure with PrivateLink connectivity are experiencing issues submitting new Flink statementsApr 24, 2026, 17:186h 56mInformationalNot disclosed
Experiencing delays in Tableflow external catalog syncs in AWSApr 21, 2026, 09:3415mMajorNot disclosed
Elevated error rates in AWS me-south-1 and me-central-1 regionsApr 1, 2026, 19:52105d 7hMajorNot disclosed
Metrics API was experiencing failures from 03:23 UTC to 03:58 UTCMar 5, 2026, 04:402h 42mMajorNot disclosed
Elevated error rates in AWS me-south-1 and me-central-1 regionsMar 2, 2026, 07:1917d 17hMajorNot disclosed
Elevated Error Rates in AWS me-central-1 regionMar 1, 2026, 18:083h 57mMajorNot disclosed
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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