Promised uptime vs actual

35 vendors · 99 services

Confluent Cloud Fully Managed Connectors SLA

Confluent · Messaging · promises up to 99.99% · SLA of Jul 25, 2025 · checked 47d ago

No major outage in the last 365 days: 100% observed against the 99.99% Connector to a multi-zone Dedicated, Enterprise or Standard cluster, which applies per region.

Last 90 days: no major outage.

Incidents, last 365 days

MinorNov 5, 2026
Kafka - Increased latency and connectivity issues - Azure - brazilsouth
A minor incident on Confluent Cloud for 2.1 h, not counted as downtime.
4 days ago
DegradedOct 20, 2026
Multiple Confluent Cloud services are in a degraded state - GCP EU-West2
A partial outage or slowdown on Confluent Cloud for 10 h, not counted as downtime.
2 weeks ago
MinorOct 16, 2026
Delay in Kafka cluster provisioning
A minor incident on Confluent Cloud for 7.3 h, not counted as downtime.
3 weeks ago
DegradedOct 9, 2026
Possible outage in AWS us-east-1
A partial outage or slowdown on Confluent Cloud for 56 min, not counted as downtime.
4 weeks ago
DegradedOct 9, 2026
Experiencing high error rate in AZURE in West Europe region
A partial outage or slowdown on Confluent Cloud for 20 h, not counted as downtime.
4 weeks ago
DegradedOct 8, 2026
Experiencing high error rate in AZURE in Germany West Central region
A partial outage or slowdown on Confluent Cloud for 56 min, not counted as downtime.
4 weeks ago
DegradedSep 27, 2026
Missing Metrics on Confluent Cloud
A partial outage or slowdown for 0 min, not counted as downtime.
6 weeks ago
MinorSep 26, 2026
Elevated error rates in Azure East US
A minor incident on Confluent Cloud for 13 h, not counted as downtime.
6 weeks ago
DegradedSep 23, 2026
Confluent Cloud Console Degraded (All Regions) and Multiple Services Impacted in AWS us-west-2
A partial outage or slowdown on Confluent Cloud for 12 h, not counted as downtime.
6 weeks ago
DegradedSep 22, 2026
Elevated error rates in Azure Germany West Central region
A partial outage or slowdown on Confluent Cloud for 4.8 h, not counted as downtime.
6 weeks ago
DegradedSep 21, 2026
Confluent Cloud Console Degraded (All Regions) and Multiple Services Impacted in AWS us-west-2
A partial outage or slowdown on Confluent Cloud for 9.4 h, not counted as downtime.
7 weeks ago
DegradedSep 15, 2026
Multiple Confluent Cloud services are in a degraded state - All regions
A partial outage or slowdown on Confluent Cloud for 82 min, not counted as downtime.
7 weeks ago
DegradedSep 8, 2026
Connectivity degradation - AWS us-east-1
A partial outage or slowdown on Confluent Cloud for 17 h, not counted as downtime.
2 months ago
MinorSep 8, 2026
Service Disruption affecting Authentication, Schema Registry, ksqlDB, and Flink in AWS us-east-1
A minor incident on Confluent Cloud for 30 h, not counted as downtime.
2 months ago
MinorSep 1, 2026
Investigating Elevated Errors in GCP us-central1
A minor incident on Confluent Cloud for 48 min, not counted as downtime.
2 months ago
DegradedAug 25, 2026
Elevated error rates and latencies in Azure Southeast Asia region
A partial outage or slowdown on Confluent Cloud for 3.2 h, not counted as downtime.
2 months ago
DegradedAug 20, 2026
Elevated error rates and latency in GCP us-west1
A partial outage or slowdown on Confluent Cloud for 3.1 h, not counted as downtime.
2 months ago
MinorJul 17, 2026
Flink statements degraded in GCP us-central1 region
A minor incident on Confluent Cloud for 3 h, not counted as downtime.
3 months ago
MinorJul 15, 2026
Kafka cluster performance degradation for clusters in AWS region eu-central-1
A minor incident on Confluent Cloud for 14 h, not counted as downtime.
3 months ago
MinorJun 29, 2026
Kafka consumer and producer degradation in Azure spaincentral
A minor incident on Confluent Cloud for 2.9 h, not counted as downtime.
4 months ago
MinorJun 29, 2026
Confluent Cloud Metrics API is currently experiencing elevated error rates
A minor incident on Confluent Cloud for 70 min, not counted as downtime.
4 months ago
DegradedJun 25, 2026
Increased error rates in Metrics API
A partial outage or slowdown on Confluent Cloud for 1.9 h, not counted as downtime.
4 months ago
MinorJun 21, 2026
Kafka cluster performance degradation for Basic and Standard clusters in AWS US-East-2
A minor incident on Confluent Cloud for 2.1 h, not counted as downtime.
4 months ago
MinorJun 16, 2026
Intermittent Produce/Consume Unavailability in Azure Dedicated clusters
A minor incident on Confluent Cloud for 1.9 h, not counted as downtime.
4 months ago
DegradedJun 12, 2026
Confluent Cloud: Degraded inter-region connectivity: AWS us-west-2
A partial outage or slowdown on Confluent Cloud for 4.2 h, not counted as downtime.
5 months ago

Latest 25 of 46.

Major outage time per month

Allowed per month: 4.4 min

Commitments and credits

99.99%
Connector to a multi-zone Dedicated, Enterprise or Standard cluster
Supported fully managed connectors attached to multi-zone clusters
Credit: below 99.99%: 10% · below 99%: 25%
99.95%
Connector to a single-zone Dedicated or Standard cluster
Supported fully managed connectors attached to single-zone clusters
Credit: below 99.95%: 10% · below 99%: 25%
99.5%
Connector to a Basic cluster
Supported fully managed connectors attached to Basic clusters
Credit: below 99.5%: 10% · below 99%: 25%

More in messaging

Terms, exclusions and sources
Measured
Consecutive five-minute periods per connector instance; down when all Tasks are in a Failed State due to Confluent
Credit cap
25% of monthly fees (lowest band)
Claim window
Within five (5) calendar days after the last day of the month in which the Service Level was missed
How to claim
Log a support ticket (community-supported customers email cloud-support@confluent.io) with 'SLA Credit Request' in the subject, client versions/configs and request logs of failed writes
Not covered
Suspension for late payment, misuse or violation of the Agreement/AUP; Factors outside Confluent's reasonable control incl. force majeure, DoS attacks, internet issues; Third-party services incl. failures of the underlying cloud platform; Use of unsupported Kafka clients or unacceptable client configuration; Scheduled maintenance with five (5) days email notice, or ad hoc maintenance; Deployment on any Jio region, except as noted
Status history
Status history since Sep 22, 2025
< 99.99% ≥ 99.95% ... < 99% 25% [10% cell spans the rows from < 99.99% down to ≥ 99%]
Confluent, July 25, 2025 (Confluent Cloud Unified SLA). Read the SLA

This table uses merged cells. The committed levels were read from word coordinates in the PDF: the multi-zone '10%' is vertically centred across the 99.99-99% rows, and the single-zone '10%' across the 99.95-99% rows. Custom, preview and 'Connect with Confluent' connectors are excluded. Max credit 25%.

All Confluent SLAsHow this is measured