Confluent incident
Investigating Elevated Errors in GCP us-central1
Confluent experienced a minor incident on September 1, 2026 affecting Confluent Cloud, lasting 47m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Sep 01, 2026, 04:27 PM UTC
We are investigating elevated error rates and degraded performance for some services running in the Google Cloud (GCP) us-central1 region. This is related to an ongoing Google Cloud networking issue affecting a portion of the region. Customers in this region may experience intermittent connectivity issues, elevated latency, or errors. We are actively assessing the full scope of impact and will provide an update as more information becomes available.
- resolved Sep 01, 2026, 05:14 PM UTC
The GCP issue affecting the us-central1 region has been mitigated and all Confluent Cloud services in the region have returned to normal operation. Provisioning capability, error rates and latency have recovered to expected levels. Customers should no longer experience impact. If you continue to see any issues, please contact Confluent Support.