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Confluent: Elevated error rates and latency in GCP us-west1
Confluent Cloud reported a major incident affecting Kafka clusters in GCP us-west1, with elevated latency, request timeouts, and increased error rates. It started at 2026-08-20 17:10 UTC and was resolved at 2026-08-20 20:18 UTC, lasting 3 h 7 min. Confluent said the GCP issues were mitigated and monitoring showed no remaining impact.
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Affected components: Confluent Cloud
Timeline of updates
- investigating
We are investigating an incident affecting services in the GCP us-west1 region. Customers with Kafka clusters in this region may experience elevated latency, request timeouts, or increased error rates. Our engineering teams are actively working to restore normal performance.
- investigating
We are seeing recovery of Confluent services and are continuing to monitor the situation. The next update will be posted within 1 hour.
- resolved
The GCP issues in us-west1 region have been mitigated. Confluent services are no longer seeing any impact based on our monitoring.
Rewindex changes for this incident
- Major incident: Elevated error rates and latency in GCP us-west1 2026-08-20 17:10 UTC
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