# Confluent: Major incident: Flink job submission and job scale operations are affected in GCP asia-northeast1, europe-west8, europe-north1, southamerica-east1

**Summary:** Confluent reported a major outage affecting Flink job submission and scaling in GCP asia-northeast1, europe-west8, europe-north1, and southamerica-east1, leaving jobs Pending or Stopping. Symptoms began 2025-12-02 19:53 UTC; the recorded incident started 2025-12-02 21:37 UTC and lasted 4 h 26 min. Fixes restored all affected regions; resolution was recorded at 2025-12-03 02:04 UTC. _(machine-written, sol)_
- Kind: Major incident · Label: outage (model (Jev))
- Changed: 2025-12-02 21:37 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-17 18:22 UTC
- [Source: https://stspg.io/sdt032t2k043](https://stspg.io/sdt032t2k043)
- [Company: Confluent](https://rewindex.com/company/confluent.md)
- Versions: before (none: first archived) → after incident\_version:139/nj5l2dbxq36y@9b2a01ce4a63
- Change 1 of 1 for this incident

## What changed

**1. Added: Title**

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+ Flink job submission and job scale operations are affected in GCP asia-northeast1, europe-west8, europe-north1, southamerica-east1
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**2. Added: Impact**

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+ major
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**3. Added: Status**

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+ resolved
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**4. Added: Start time**

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+ 2025-12-02 21:37 UTC
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**5. Added: Resolved time**

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+ 2025-12-03 02:04 UTC
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**6. Added: Affected components**

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+ Confluent Cloud
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**7. Added: Update** (investigating) · 2025-12-02 21:37 UTC

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+ This manifests itself in new Flink jobs remaining stuck in "Statement Status: Pending", existing Flink jobs being requested to stop remaining stuck in "Statement Status: Stopping". This issue started manifesting at 2025-12-02 19:53 UTC. We are currently investigating the issue and attempting to mitigate or provide a work-around.
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**8. Added: Update** (identified) · 2025-12-02 22:03 UTC

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+ The root cause for the issue has been identified and the team is working on applying a mitigation.
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**9. Added: Update** (identified) · 2025-12-02 23:14 UTC

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+ The team has successfully applied a fix to asia-northeast1 and we're seeing recovery there.  Meanwhile the team is applying mitigations in the other affected regions.
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**10. Added: Update** (monitoring) · 2025-12-03 01:32 UTC

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+ A fix has been applied to all regions and we've seen recovery in all affected regions.  We'll continue to monitor for the next 30 minutes.
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**11. Added: Update** (resolved) · 2025-12-03 02:04 UTC

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+ No further issues have been observed. The incident is now resolved as of 2025-1203 02:03 UTC.
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## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-12-02 21:37 UTC | Major incident: Flink job submission and job scale operations are affected in GCP asia-northeast1, europe-west8, europe-north1, southamerica-east1 (this change) | outage |

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