Major incident

Confluent Cloud: Multiple Confluent Cloud services are in a degraded state - All regions

Affected: Confluent Cloud

Current status of Confluent Cloud: Operational — live Confluent Cloud status

Timeline

1. Sep 15, 2026, 23:59 UTC
   investigating
   Starting on Tuesday, September 15th 2026 at 21:25 UTC, multiple Confluent Cloud services began entering a degraded state. We have identified the cause of the degradation and are actively mitigating the issue. Updates will be posted here in the next 30 minutes or when the issue is fully mitigated, whichever happens first.
2. Sep 16, 2026, 00:00 UTC
   identified
   The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
3. Sep 16, 2026, 00:22 UTC
   monitoring
   The mitigation has been deployed and the degraded services are recovering as of 00:20 UTC on September 16th, 2026. We'll continue to monitor for any residual issues before resolving this incident in 1 hour (01:20 UTC).
4. Sep 16, 2026, 01:21 UTC
   resolved
   This incident has been resolved.

Updates as published by Confluent Cloud (original).