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MessagingSLA of Jul 25, 2025Checked 15h ago

Promise vs reality

Downtime used against the allowance

33 h of major incidents, 37.2x the allowance53 min allowed in 365 days

2 major and 46 minor incidents; worst region us-east-1. 15 d degraded (not counted).

Major incident minutes per month

Allowed per month: 4.4 min

All incidents, weighted: 97.169% · Downtime
Promised
99.99%
Observed, 365d
99.628%
Major incident time
33 h
Credit on first breach
5%

Commitments and credits

  • Stream Governance Essentials (incl. Jio region)Essentials package99.5%

    Monthly uptime below, credit of the bill

    1. Below 99.5%5%
    2. Below 99%10%
  • Stream Governance AdvancedAdvanced package (non-Jio)99.99%

    Monthly uptime below, credit of the bill

    1. Below 99.99%5%
    2. Below 99.5%10%
    3. Below 99%25%
  • Stream Governance Advanced for Jio regionAdvanced package in Jio region99.95%

    Monthly uptime below, credit of the bill

    1. Below 99.95%5%
    2. Below 99.5%10%
    3. Below 99%25%

Terms

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
< 99.99% ≥ 99.95% - 5% - ; < 99.5% ≥ 99.0% 5% 10% 10%; < 99.0% 10% 25% 25%
Confluent, July 25, 2025 (Confluent Cloud Unified SLA). Read the SLA

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.

Evidence: incidents, last 365 days

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