Elevated error rates and latency in GCP us-west1
Incident Lifecycle
Affected Components
Confluent Cloud
Incident Timeline
Investigating
We are seeing recovery of Confluent services and are continuing to monitor the situation. The next update will be posted within 1 hour.
Aug 20, 2026 at 7:18 PM UTC
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.
Aug 20, 2026 at 5:10 PM UTC
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