Intermittent content search failures, January 2026

Severity

P1

Affected apps

Diagrams, Approval, Calendar, Markdown

Status

Resolved


#What happened

Capable apps that rely on Confluence content search were affected by intermittent failures in that search. Anything that finds pages by query, and that is a lot of this product, could return incomplete results or none at all.

As with the user search incident in the same month, the failures were intermittent, so a repeated query often succeeded.


#How you would have known

  • Macros that list or find pages showing fewer results than expected, or none

  • Calendars appearing empty when they contain events

  • The same view being correct on a refresh


#Customer data


#Resolution

Refreshing usually returned correct results. The platform issue was resolved by Atlassian.



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