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Confluence: Major incident: Confluence presenting users with lost connection errors when attempting to edit content

Summary

Confluence reported a major incident causing lost-connection errors for some customers editing content, starting at 2025-11-18 02:55 UTC and resolving at 2025-11-18 03:35 UTC (39 min). The team reverted a recent change suspected of causing the errors and confirmed customers should no longer encounter them.

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Major incidentLabel: outage (model (Jev), 97%)Changed Detected Source: stspg.io (opens in new tab)

What changed

AddedTitle#1
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After: Confluence presenting users with lost connection errors when attempting to edit content
AddedImpact#2
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After: major
AddedStatus#3
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After: resolved
AddedStart time#4
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After: 2025-11-18 02:55 UTC
AddedResolved time#5
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After: 2025-11-18 03:35 UTC
AddedAffected components#6
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After: Administration, Android App, Authentication and User Management, Cloud to Cloud Migrations - Copy Product Data, Comments, Confluence Automations, Create and Edit, iOS App, Marketplace Apps, Mobile - Android App, Mobile - iOS App, Notifications, Purchasing & Licensing, Search, Server to Cloud Migrations - Copy Product Data, Signup, View Content
AddedUpdateinvestigating#7
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After: We are aware of some customers being impacted by an error in Confluence while attempting to edit content stating 'We've lost our connection to you. Your changes will be saved when we reconnect. Trying to reconnect...'. Our team is investigating with urgency and will provide another update within an hour.
AddedUpdatemonitoring#8
Before: not present
After: Our team has reverted a recent change that is suspected to have caused these errors, and have seen instances of these error messages to decrease. We are continuing to monitor and will update when this issue is confirmed to be resolved.
AddedUpdateresolved#9
Before: not present
After: Our team has been able to confirm that customers should no longer be experiencing the error while attempting to edit using Confluence. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. This issue is now resolved.

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History of this incident

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Major incident: Confluence presenting users with lost connection errors when attempting to edit content (this change)
Confluence reported a major incident causing lost-connection errors for some customers editing content, starting at 2025-11-18 02:55 UTC and resolving at 2025-11-18 03:35 UTC (39 min). The team reverted a recent change suspected of causing the errors and confirmed customers should no longer encounter them.
Major incident

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