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Confluence outage: Users experiencing issues accessing multiple Atlassian products

Confluence reported this critical-impact incident on its official status page on May 14, 2026, 04:54 UTC. It was resolved after 1h 53m.

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May 14, 2026, 04:54 UTC
started
May 14, 2026, 06:48 UTC
resolved
1h 53m
duration
Critical
impact

Affected components

  • Administration
  • Android App
  • Authentication and User Management
  • Cloud to Cloud Migrations - Copy Product Data
  • Comments
  • Confluence Automations
  • Create and Edit
  • Marketplace Apps
  • Notifications
  • Purchasing & Licensing
  • Search
  • Server to Cloud Migrations - Copy Product Data
  • Signup
  • View Content
  • iOS App
  1. postmortemMay 19, 2026, 19:04 UTC

    ### Summary On May 14, 2026, between 04:30 and 05:26 UTC, Atlassian customers experienced widespread service disruption across multiple Atlassian Cloud products. The issue was caused by a race condition in our internal deployment orchestration platform during a routine rollback operation of a core identity service in the us-east region. This race condition resulted in insufficient capacity for the identity service in the affected region which started returning errors to dependent products. The incident was detected within a minute by automated monitoring systems and mitigated in 56 minutes. ### **IMPACT** During the incident, customers attempting to access Atlassian Cloud products in the us-east region experienced authentication and permission failures and were unable to access services. Customers also experienced errors when accessing the support portal until Atlassian fell back to an alternate support method. This was caused by a core identity service in the us-east region becomin

  2. resolvedMay 14, 2026, 06:48 UTC

    All products and services impacted by this incident should now be fully recovered, and this incident is resolved.

  3. monitoringMay 14, 2026, 06:41 UTC

    We are approaching full system recovery at this time, and are performing final confirmations that services are restored.

  4. monitoringMay 14, 2026, 06:40 UTC

    We are now able to see recovery for all impacted products, and users should be able to access their products as expected. Our team is continuing to monitor all products and services to ensure there is no further impact, and we will provide further update when this has been validated and the incident is closed.

  5. monitoringMay 14, 2026, 05:43 UTC

    Our team has implemented a mitigation for this issue and we are now seeing recovery across Atlassian products. We will continue to monitor this issue for any ongoing concerns, and provide further updates here within an hour as we are able to confirm a full recovery has taken place.

  6. identifiedMay 14, 2026, 05:34 UTC

    Our team has identified the root cause of this issue and is now actively working on mitigating the issue with accessing Atlassian products. At this time, Atlassian customers should also be able to once again raise support requests with our team. We will provide further update within an hour as we are able to progress mitigating this issue.

  7. identifiedMay 14, 2026, 05:24 UTC

    It is likely if you are experiencing any issues relating to logging in or accessing Atlassian products at this time it is likely due to this ongoing incident. We are continuing to receive reports about expanded product impact resulting from this incident. While our team continues to investigate the issue with urgency, we will continue to provide further updates here with additional information. We will provide further update within one hour, or sooner as further information becomes available.

  8. identifiedMay 14, 2026, 05:11 UTC

    Further confirmations of impacted products have now been added to the incident. Our team is investigating the issue with urgency and we will provide further update as soon as it becomes available.

  9. investigatingMay 14, 2026, 05:03 UTC

    We are aware that the current issues with accessing Atlassian products are impacting additional products. We have now expanded the impact of the incident to cover the known impacted products at this time. We will provide further update within one hour or sooner as information is available.

  10. investigatingMay 14, 2026, 04:54 UTC

    We are investigating an issue with multiple Atlassian products that is impacting a large number of Confluence and Jira Cloud customers. We are continuing to investigate and will add further details about additional impact as our investigation continues. We will provide more details within the next hour or sooner if further information becomes available

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Confluence outage on May 14, 2026: Users experiencing issues accessing multiple Atlassian products · APIStatus.watch