# Elevated Kafka Latency in GCP asia-southeast1

- Provider: [Confluent Cloud](https://down.guide/confluent)
- Level: confirmed
- Impact: Degraded
- lasted 11h 46m
- started 2026-02-23 22:12 UTC
- Confluent Cloud
- apac, asia-southeast1
- id: DWN-963f2491af
- Official page: https://stspg.io/sts6ldwlmqdq

## Updates from Confluent Cloud
### 2026-02-23 22:12 UTC: investigating
We are currently investigating this issue.

### 2026-02-23 22:17 UTC: investigating
Starting 2/21/2026, 21:00 UTC We are observing Elevated Kafka Latency in GCP asia-southeast1 region for less than 0.1% of produce and fetch requests for some customers. Median latencies for both produce and fetch requests are not impacted. We are actively working with GCP to identify the root cause of the issue. We will provide next update in 2 hours or earlier.

### 2026-02-23 22:18 UTC: investigating
We are continuing to investigate this issue.

### 2026-02-24 00:23 UTC: investigating
We are continuing to investigate this issue with GCP. GCP is actively working on applying mitigation.

### 2026-02-24 07:27 UTC: monitoring
GCP has identified the root cause and has fixed the same. Currently monitoring.

### 2026-02-24 09:58 UTC: resolved
The issue was resolved successfully. All systems working as expected.

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