Confluent Cloud outage: Experiencing high error rate in AZURE in Germany West Central region

Affected components

• Confluent Cloud

1. resolvedOct 8, 2026, 11:56 UTC

   This incident has been resolved.

2. monitoringOct 8, 2026, 11:38 UTC

   A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

3. investigatingOct 8, 2026, 11:00 UTC

   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.

What APIStatus.watch saw

• Oct 8, 2026, 11:03 UTCoperational → partial outage
• Oct 8, 2026, 11:58 UTCpartial outage → operational

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How often does Confluent Cloud have incidents?

Confluent Cloud reported 14 incidents in the last 90 days, 9 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 4h 50m. See Confluent Cloud's uptime and incident history