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No, Confluence does not support Mermaid diagrams natively. There is no built-in macro or feature that renders Mermaid syntax in Confluence pages. To add Mermaid diagrams to Confluence, you need a Marketplace app.

This guide covers how to set up Mermaid in Confluence and which diagram types you can create.

Sequence diagrams are one of the most widely used diagram types in software documentation. They show exactly how participants -- users, services, databases, external APIs -- exchange messages over time. For Confluence teams, embedding sequence diagrams directly on wiki pages means architecture docs, API specifications, and incident post-mortems stay in one place instead of scattered across external tools.

Mermaid's text-based syntax makes sequence diagrams fast to write and easy to update, but the syntax has its own set of rules that can trip you up. This FAQ answers the questions Confluence users ask most often about building sequence diagrams with Mermaid, with expanded explanations, working code examples, and copy-paste templates you can drop straight into a Mermaid Plus macro.

Sequence diagrams are one of the most practical tools in a software team's documentation toolkit. They show how objects, services, or actors interact over time, making them ideal for documenting API flows, authentication processes, microservice choreography, and error-handling logic. If your team uses Confluence for documentation, embedding sequence diagrams directly on your pages keeps architecture docs alongside everything else your team needs.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create sequence diagrams in Confluence using Mermaid syntax. Every example is copy-paste ready, so you can drop it straight into a Confluence page and see the result immediately.