Confluent Cloud outage: Elevated error rates in Azure Germany West Central region

Affected components

• Confluent Cloud

1. resolvedSep 22, 2026, 19:58 UTC

   This incident has been resolved. Clusters in the Azure's Germany West Central region are now fully operational.

2. monitoringSep 22, 2026, 19:35 UTC

   The Azure regional disruption has ended, and Confluent Cloud mitigation was achieved as of 18:00 UTC. Clusters in the Azure's Germany West Central region are now fully operational. We will monitor for residual impact before marking this incident resolved.

3. investigatingSep 22, 2026, 15:09 UTC

   We are investigating connectivity issues and elevated error rates affecting some Confluent Cloud clusters hosted in Microsoft Azure's Germany West Central region, beginning at approximately 13:00 UTC on 22 Sep 2026. Affected customers may experience degraded availability or intermittent connectivity for clusters in the region. This is associated with an ongoing Microsoft Azure service disruption in that region. We are actively engaged with Microsoft Azure.

What APIStatus.watch saw

• Sep 22, 2026, 15:10 UTCoperational → degraded
• Sep 22, 2026, 19:40 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