Confluent incident
Flink job submission and job scale operations are affected in GCP asia-northeast1, europe-west8, europe-north1, southamerica-east1
Confluent experienced a major incident on December 2, 2025 affecting Confluent Cloud, lasting 4h 26m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Dec 02, 2025, 09:37 PM UTC
This manifests itself in new Flink jobs remaining stuck in "Statement Status: Pending", existing Flink jobs being requested to stop remaining stuck in "Statement Status: Stopping". This issue started manifesting at 2025-12-02 19:53 UTC. We are currently investigating the issue and attempting to mitigate or provide a work-around.
- identified Dec 02, 2025, 10:03 PM UTC
The root cause for the issue has been identified and the team is working on applying a mitigation.
- identified Dec 02, 2025, 11:14 PM UTC
The team has successfully applied a fix to asia-northeast1 and we're seeing recovery there. Meanwhile the team is applying mitigations in the other affected regions.
- monitoring Dec 03, 2025, 01:32 AM UTC
A fix has been applied to all regions and we've seen recovery in all affected regions. We'll continue to monitor for the next 30 minutes.
- resolved Dec 03, 2025, 02:04 AM UTC
No further issues have been observed. The incident is now resolved as of 2025-1203 02:03 UTC.