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Confluent: Elevated Kafka Latency in GCP asia-southeast1

Affected components: Confluent Cloud

Timeline of updates

1. investigating2026-02-23 22:12 UTC

   We are currently investigating this issue.

2. investigating2026-02-23 22:17 UTC

   Starting 2/21/2026, 21:00 UTC We are observing Elevated Kafka Latency in GCP asia-southeast1 region for less than 0.1% of produce and fetch requests for some customers. Median latencies for both produce and fetch requests are not impacted. We are actively working with GCP to identify the root cause of the issue. We will provide next update in 2 hours or earlier.

3. investigating2026-02-23 22:18 UTC

   We are continuing to investigate this issue.

4. investigating2026-02-24 00:23 UTC

   We are continuing to investigate this issue with GCP. GCP is actively working on applying mitigation.

5. monitoring2026-02-24 07:27 UTC

   GCP has identified the root cause and has fixed the same. Currently monitoring.

6. resolved2026-02-24 09:58 UTC

   The issue was resolved successfully. All systems working as expected.

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