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

Affected components

• Confluent Cloud

1. identifiedOct 10, 2026, 02:12 UTC

   Confluent is continuing to work with Azure on recovery for a small number of affected clusters. Azure has not provided Confluent with a specific ETA for resolution. Our next update will be posted by 03:00 UTC, or sooner, as updates are available.

2. identifiedOct 10, 2026, 00:12 UTC

   Confluent is continuing to work with Azure on recovery for a small number of affected clusters. Azure has not provided Confluent with a specific ETA for resolution. Our next update will be posted by 01:00 UTC, or sooner, as updates are available.

3. identifiedOct 9, 2026, 23:03 UTC

   Confluent is continuing to work with Azure on recovery for a small number of affected clusters. Azure has not provided Confluent with a specific ETA for resolution. Our next update will be posted by 00:00 UTC, or sooner, as updates are available.

4. identifiedOct 9, 2026, 22:04 UTC

   Confluent is continuing to work with Azure on recovery for a small number of affected clusters. Azure has not provided Confluent with a specific ETA for resolution. Our next update will be posted by 23:00 UTC, or sooner, as updates are available.

5. identifiedOct 9, 2026, 21:07 UTC

   Confluent is continuing to work with Azure on recovery for a small number of affected clusters. Azure has not provided Confluent with a specific ETA for resolution. Our next update will be posted by 22:00 UTC, or sooner, as updates are available.

6. identifiedOct 9, 2026, 20:02 UTC

   Confluent is continuing to work with Azure on recovery for a small number of affected clusters. Azure has not provided Confluent with a specific ETA for resolution. Our next update will be posted by 21:00 UTC, or sooner, as updates are available.

7. identifiedOct 9, 2026, 19:10 UTC

   Confluent is continuing to work with Azure on recovery for a small number of affected clusters. Azure has not provided Confluent with a specific ETA for resolution. Our next update will be posted by 20:00 UTC, or sooner, as updates are available.

8. identifiedOct 9, 2026, 16:46 UTC

   Azure has identified the issue and recovery actions are underway

9. investigatingOct 9, 2026, 13:34 UTC

   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.

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in Confluent Cloud's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

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How often does Confluent Cloud have incidents?

Confluent Cloud reported 16 incidents in the last 90 days, 11 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 4h 1m. See Confluent Cloud's uptime and incident history