Is Confluent Cloud down?
No open incidents in its feed as of Oct 17, 2026, 12:53 UTC. The latest, "Delay in Kafka cluster provisioning" (reported Oct 16, 2026, 01:04 UTC), is marked Resolved.
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Recent incidents
The newest 6 the paper has read from the feed, each linking to Confluent Cloud's own page for it. A state is as the feed gave it when last read.
- Delay in Kafka cluster provisioning
We are investigating an issue that is causing delays in Kafka cluster provisioning in all regions. Existing clusters are not affected and continue to operate normally. We will provide another update within 60 minutes.
- Possible outage in AWS us-east-1
We are investigating an incident affecting services in the AWS us-east-1 region. Customers with Kafka clusters in this region may experience elevated latency, request timeouts, or increased error rates.
- Experiencing high error rate in AZURE in West Europe region
Users in West Europe region of Azure could face elevated error rates and experience degraded performance. We are currently investigating the issue and attempting to mitigate or provide a work-around.
- Experiencing high error rate in AZURE in Germany West Central region
Users in Germany West Central region of Azure could face elevated error rates. We are currently investigating the issue and attempting to mitigate or provide a work-around.
- Missing Metrics on Confluent Cloud
Confluent Cloud Metrics were delayed from 00:33 to 02:15 UTC on Sep 27. Queries for recent metrics during this time duration may return incomplete or no data. This incident has been resolved as of 02:15 UTC.
- Elevated error rates in Azure East US
We are currently investigating an issue related to elevated error rates in Azure East US