Elevated Kafka Latency in GCP asia-southeast1
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Investigating
We are continuing to investigate this issue with GCP. GCP is actively working on applying mitigation.
Feb 24, 2026 at 12:23 AM UTC
Investigating
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Feb 23, 2026 at 10:18 PM UTC
Investigating
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.
Feb 23, 2026 at 10:17 PM UTC
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We are currently investigating this issue.
Feb 23, 2026 at 10:12 PM UTC
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