Confluent Reports Elevated Error Rates in Azure Germany West Central Region

Confluent Cloud clusters in Microsoft Azure's Germany West Central region are experiencing degraded availability and intermittent connectivity.

By The Downtime · Sep 22, 2026 · 3:15 PM ·Updated 1 week ago

Confluent is investigating connectivity issues and elevated error rates affecting Confluent Cloud clusters hosted in Microsoft Azure's Germany West Central region. The incident began at approximately 13:00 UTC on September 22, 2026. Affected customers may experience degraded availability or intermittent connectivity for clusters in the region. The current status is investigating.

Confluent provides managed streaming and event-processing services used by enterprises for real-time data pipelines and applications.

Confluent is actively engaged with Microsoft Azure, as the disruption is associated with an ongoing Azure service issue in the Germany West Central region. The company is working to resolve the matter.

This is a developing story. The Downtime will provide updates as more information becomes available.

🕒 Live updates (3)

resolved Sep 22, 7:58 PM

This incident has been resolved. Clusters in the Azure's Germany West Central region are now fully operational.

monitoring Sep 22, 7:35 PM

The Azure regional disruption has ended, and Confluent Cloud mitigation was achieved as of 18:00 UTC. Clusters in the Azure's Germany West Central region are now fully operational. We will monitor for residual impact before marking this incident resolved.

investigating Sep 22, 3:09 PM

We are investigating connectivity issues and elevated error rates affecting some Confluent Cloud clusters hosted in Microsoft Azure's Germany West Central region, beginning at approximately 13:00 UTC on 22 Sep 2026. Affected customers may experience degraded availability or intermittent connectivity for clusters in the region. This is associated with an ongoing Microsoft Azure service disruption in that region. We are actively engaged with Microsoft Azure.

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