Outage in Confluent

Degraded Kafka performance affecting some Confluent Cloud clusters

Resolved Minor
September 04, 2025 - Started 18 days ago - Lasted 4 days
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Outage Details

We are experiencing issues related to internal topic compaction causing topic size to grow. This is impacting cluster performance in a limited number of clusters with extreme cases. We have identified the root cause and are actively working on a fix. Next update soon.
Components affected
Confluent Cloud
Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED 13 days ago - at 09/08/2025 05:49PM

This incident has been resolved.

MONITORING 13 days ago - at 09/08/2025 05:47PM

Issues related to internal topic compaction have been resolved.

MONITORING 17 days ago - at 09/04/2025 05:05PM

We have deployed mitigation steps. We'll continue monitoring but no longer expect any customer impact.

IDENTIFIED 17 days ago - at 09/04/2025 02:58PM

Mitigation is in progress. Next update in 2 hours.

IDENTIFIED 17 days ago - at 09/04/2025 12:43PM

Mitigation is still in progress. Next update in 3 hours

IDENTIFIED 18 days ago - at 09/04/2025 09:42AM

We are experiencing issues related to internal topic compaction causing topic size to grow. This is impacting cluster performance in a limited number of clusters with extreme cases. We have identified the root cause and are actively working on a fix. Next update soon.

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