# Confluent: Major incident: Experiencing high error rate in AZURE in Germany West Central region

**Summary:** Confluent Cloud users in Azure’s Germany West Central region could face elevated error rates in a major-impact incident starting 2026-10-08 11:00 UTC and lasting 55 min. A fix was implemented by 2026-10-08 11:38 UTC, and the incident was resolved at 2026-10-08 11:56 UTC. _(machine-written, sol)_
- Kind: Major incident · Label: outage (model (Jev))
- Changed: 2026-10-08 11:00 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-17 18:22 UTC
- [Source: https://stspg.io/pqqcxkj2yyv0](https://stspg.io/pqqcxkj2yyv0)
- [Company: Confluent](https://rewindex.com/company/confluent.md)
- Versions: before (none: first archived) → after incident\_version:139/w45zq7p98g0b@294fa9ea3053
- Change 1 of 1 for this incident

## What changed

**1. Added: Title**

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+ Experiencing high error rate in AZURE in Germany West Central region
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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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+ 2026-10-08 11:00 UTC
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**5. Added: Resolved time**

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+ 2026-10-08 11:56 UTC
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**6. Added: Affected components**

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+ Confluent Cloud
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**7. Added: Update** (investigating) · 2026-10-08 11:00 UTC

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+ 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.
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**8. Added: Update** (monitoring) · 2026-10-08 11:38 UTC

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+ A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
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**9. Added: Update** (resolved) · 2026-10-08 11:56 UTC

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+ This incident has been resolved.
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## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-10-08 11:00 UTC | Major incident: Experiencing high error rate in AZURE in Germany West Central region (this change) | outage |

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