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Confluent investigating elevated errors and latency in GCP us-west1 region

Kafka clusters in Google Cloud's us-west1 experiencing service degradation.

By The Downtime · Aug 20, 2026 · 5:15 PM ·Updated 2 days ago

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.

🕒 Live updates (3)

resolved Aug 20, 8:18 PM

The GCP issues in us-west1 region have been mitigated. Confluent services are no longer seeing any impact based on our monitoring.

investigating Aug 20, 7:18 PM

We are seeing recovery of Confluent services and are continuing to monitor the situation. The next update will be posted within 1 hour.

investigating Aug 20, 5:10 PM

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.

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Outage details are aggregated from official provider status pages. The Downtime reports them as a public service and is not affiliated with the providers named.

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