Confluent Cloud incident: Elevated error rates in Azure East US

Affected components

• Confluent Cloud

1. resolvedSep 26, 2026, 19:43 UTC

   This incident has been resolved. All affected services have fully recovered, and no further customer impact is expected. No action is required from customers.

2. identifiedSep 26, 2026, 19:43 UTC

   We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

3. identifiedSep 26, 2026, 13:23 UTC

   Systems are continuing to recover and are being monitored

4. identifiedSep 26, 2026, 08:00 UTC

   Microsoft Azure has confirmed an outage impacting their Azure East US region, which is the root cause of the elevated error rates affecting Confluent services. Confluent will provide another update as soon as we receive further details.

5. investigatingSep 26, 2026, 06:40 UTC

   We are currently investigating an issue related to elevated error rates in Azure East US

What APIStatus.watch saw

• Sep 26, 2026, 06:45 UTCoperational → degraded
• Sep 26, 2026, 19:45 UTCdegraded → operational

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How often does Confluent Cloud have incidents?

Confluent Cloud reported 13 incidents in the last 90 days, 8 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 7h 3m. See Confluent Cloud's uptime and incident history