Confluent incident

Elevated error rates in Azure Germany West Central region

Confluent experienced a major incident on September 22, 2026 affecting Confluent Cloud, lasting 4h 49m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started: Sep 22, 2026, 03:09 PM UTC
Resolved: Sep 22, 2026, 07:58 PM UTC
Duration: 4h 49m
Detected by Pingoru: Sep 22, 2026, 03:09 PM UTC

Affected components

Confluent Cloud

Update timeline

investigating Sep 22, 2026, 03:09 PM UTC

We are investigating connectivity issues and elevated error rates affecting some Confluent Cloud clusters hosted in Microsoft Azure's Germany West Central region, beginning at approximately 13:00 UTC on 22 Sep 2026. Affected customers may experience degraded availability or intermittent connectivity for clusters in the region. This is associated with an ongoing Microsoft Azure service disruption in that region. We are actively engaged with Microsoft Azure.
monitoring Sep 22, 2026, 07:35 PM UTC

The Azure regional disruption has ended, and Confluent Cloud mitigation was achieved as of 18:00 UTC. Clusters in the Azure's Germany West Central region are now fully operational. We will monitor for residual impact before marking this incident resolved.
resolved Sep 22, 2026, 07:58 PM UTC

This incident has been resolved. Clusters in the Azure's Germany West Central region are now fully operational.