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.
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