Confluent is investigating a major incident affecting its services in Google Cloud Platform's us-west1 region. Customers operating Kafka clusters in the region may experience elevated latency, request timeouts, and increased error rates, according to the company's status page.
Confluent provides managed Apache Kafka and event-streaming services used by organizations to process real-time data across cloud and on-premises environments.
The company's engineering teams are actively working to restore normal performance. Confluent posted the initial investigation notice on its status page but has not yet provided a root cause or estimated time to resolution.
This is a developing story. The Downtime will update as Confluent provides additional information.