Confluence outage, 12 June 2026
Degraded performance with Confluence Cloud
- Started
- Resolved
- 12 Jun 2026, 11:15 UTC (after 2 h 29 min)
- Impact
- Minor
- Affected
- View Content, Create and Edit
Last update from Confluence
### Summary On Jun 12, 2026, between 07:04 and 12:10 UTC and on Jun 16, 2026, between 12:56 and 14:35 UTC, a subset of Atlassian customers using Confluence Cloud experienced errors and degraded performance when attempting to view or edit pages. The event was triggered when a database cluster within our infrastructure stopped responding to connection close requests. This caused idle connections to accumulate rather than be released - resulting in increased memory pressure and cascading errors for users. The incident was detected by our automated monitoring within 18 minutes and mitigated by scaling database resources and redeploying, which recycled the idle connections. A permanent fix has s...
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