Confluent Cloud Schema Registry (Stream Governance) SLA
Confluent · Messaging · promises up to 99.99% · SLA of Jul 25, 2025 · checked 23h ago
2 major outages in the last 365 days. Worst region us-east-1: 33 h counted, 99.628% observed against the 99.99% Stream Governance Advanced, which applies per region.
1 of 12 months fell below it (credits are claimed per month).
Last 90 days: no major outage.
Incidents, last 365 days
StartedIncidentCounted asDuration
- Confluent Cloud Console Degraded (All Regions) and Multiple Services Impacted in AWS us-west-2Confluent CloudDegradedSep 23, 2026 · Open
- Elevated error rates in Azure Germany West Central regionConfluent CloudDegradedSep 22, 2026 · 4.8 h
- Confluent Cloud Console Degraded (All Regions) and Multiple Services Impacted in AWS us-west-2Confluent CloudDegradedSep 21, 2026 · 9.3 h
- Multiple Confluent Cloud services are in a degraded state - All regionsConfluent CloudDegradedSep 15, 2026 · 82 min
- Connectivity degradation - AWS us-east-1Confluent CloudDegradedSep 8, 2026 · 17 h
- Service Disruption affecting Authentication, Schema Registry, ksqlDB, and Flink in AWS us-east-1Confluent CloudMinorSep 8, 2026 · 30 h
- Investigating Elevated Errors in GCP us-central1Confluent CloudMinorSep 1, 2026 · 48 min
- Elevated error rates and latencies in Azure Southeast Asia regionConfluent CloudDegradedAug 25, 2026 · 3.2 h
- Elevated error rates and latency in GCP us-west1Confluent CloudDegradedAug 20, 2026 · 3.1 h
- Flink statements degraded in GCP us-central1 regionConfluent CloudMinorJul 17, 2026 · 3 h
- Kafka cluster performance degradation for clusters in AWS region eu-central-1Confluent CloudMinorJul 15, 2026 · 14 h
- Kafka consumer and producer degradation in Azure spaincentralConfluent CloudMinorJun 29, 2026 · 2.9 h
- Confluent Cloud Metrics API is currently experiencing elevated error ratesConfluent CloudMinorJun 29, 2026 · 70 min
- Increased error rates in Metrics APIConfluent CloudDegradedJun 25, 2026 · 1.9 h
- Kafka cluster performance degradation for Basic and Standard clusters in AWS US-East-2Confluent CloudMinorJun 21, 2026 · 2.1 h
- Intermittent Produce/Consume Unavailability in Azure Dedicated clustersConfluent CloudMinorJun 16, 2026 · 1.9 h
- Confluent Cloud — Degraded inter-region connectivity — AWS us-west-2Confluent CloudDegradedJun 12, 2026 · 4.2 h
- Elevated error rates and latencies in Azure westus2 regionConfluent CloudDegradedMay 29, 2026 · 15 h
- Connection failures in a set of PNI Gateways for Kafka Clusters in AWS us-east-1 and us-west-2Confluent CloudDegradedMay 22, 2026 · 1 min
- Elevated error rates and latency on produce and consume operations on AWS us-east-1 AZ4Confluent CloudDegradedMay 8, 2026 · 72 h counted, ran 28 d
- Experiencing delays in Tableflow external catalog syncs in AWSConfluent CloudDegradedApr 21, 2026 · 15 min
- Elevated error rates in AWS me-south-1 and me-central-1 regionsConfluent CloudDegradedApr 1, 2026 · 72 h counted, ran 105 d
- Metrics API was experiencing failures from 03:23 UTC to 03:58 UTCConfluent CloudDegradedMar 5, 2026 · 2.7 h
- Elevated error rates in AWS me-south-1 and me-central-1 regionsConfluent CloudDegradedMar 2, 2026 · 72 h counted, ran 18 d
- Elevated Error Rates in AWS me-central-1 regionConfluent CloudDegradedMar 1, 2026 · 4 h
Latest 25 of 50.
Major outage time per month
Allowed per month: 4.4 min
Commitments and credits
TierUptimeCredit of the monthly bill
- Stream Governance Essentials (incl. Jio region)Essentials package99.5%below 99.5%: 5% · below 99%: 10%
- Stream Governance AdvancedAdvanced package (non-Jio)99.99%below 99.99%: 5% · below 99.5%: 10% · below 99%: 25%
- Stream Governance Advanced for Jio regionAdvanced package in Jio region99.95%below 99.95%: 5% · below 99.5%: 10% · below 99%: 25%
More in messaging
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Confluent Cloud (Kafka clusters)Confluent · Messaging · Multi-zone (Standard 2 eCKU, Enterprise 2 eCKU, Dedicated multi-zone)99.99%First credit10%Observed 365d99.628%All incidents 97.169%
Twilio APIs (Twilio-branded APIs)Twilio · Messaging · Twilio Enterprise Edition (or Administration Edition bought before Oct 24, 2024)99.99%First credit10%Observed 365d100%All incidents 99.63%
Terms, exclusions and sources
- Measured
- Minutes per Schema Registry cluster; down if all monitoring write attempts fail
- Credit cap
- 25% of monthly fees (Advanced) / 10% (Essentials)
- 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
- Weighted uptime
- All incidents, weighted: 97.169% · Downtime
< 99.99% ≥ 99.95% - 5% - ; < 99.5% ≥ 99.0% 5% 10% 10%; < 99.0% 10% 25% 25%
As printed, the Advanced column has no value for the 99.95%-99.5% band (only the Jio column does), so the Advanced schedule has a gap there. Recorded as printed; it may be a drafting quirk.
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