# Elevated error rates and latency in GCP us-west1

- Provider: [Confluent Cloud](https://down.guide/confluent)
- Level: confirmed
- Impact: Partial outage
- lasted 3h 8m
- started 2026-08-20 17:10 UTC
- Confluent Cloud
- us, us-west1
- id: DWN-7712c29e92
- Official page: https://stspg.io/7s3xlkvbvy9x

## Updates from Confluent Cloud
### 2026-08-20 17:10 UTC: investigating
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.

### 2026-08-20 19:18 UTC: investigating
We are seeing recovery of Confluent services and are continuing to monitor the situation. The next update will be posted within 1 hour.

### 2026-08-20 20:18 UTC: resolved
The GCP issues in us-west1 region have been mitigated. Confluent services are no longer seeing any impact based on our monitoring.

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