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Confluent CloudIncident · 2026-08-20 17:10 UTC

Elevated error rates and latency in GCP us-west1

ResolvedOfficial update

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

The latest update from Confluent Cloud.

State

Resolved

Started

73 d ago

2026-08-20 17:10 UTC

Lasted

3 h 8 min

until 2026-08-20 20:18 UTC

Worst impact

Partial outage

Timeline

3 updates
17:1017:5718:4419:3120:18
Partial outageUpdate postedTimes in UTC

Investigating

3 h 8 min 100%

Updates

Times in UTC

As posted by Confluent Cloud

Resolved2026-08-20 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.

Investigating2026-08-20 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.

Investigating2026-08-20 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.

Affected components

1
Confluent Cloud

Confluent Cloud in the last 90 days

Full history
90 days agoToday

Incidents in 90 days

16

Days with an incident

17

Median duration

3 h 45 min

This incident

16% shorter than the median

How long each incident lasted, on the day it started. The outlined bar is this incident.

29 h 39 min
median 3 h 45 min
90 days agoToday

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