Confluent incident

Elevated error rates and latency in GCP us-west1

Major Resolved View vendor source →

Confluent experienced a major incident on August 20, 2026 affecting Confluent Cloud, lasting 3h 7m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 20, 2026, 05:10 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 20, 2026, 08:18 PM UTC
Duration
3h 7m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 20, 2026, 05:10 PM UTC

Affected components

Confluent Cloud

Update timeline

  1. investigating Aug 20, 2026, 05:10 PM 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.

  2. investigating Aug 20, 2026, 07:18 PM 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. resolved Aug 20, 2026, 08:18 PM UTC

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