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Kafka
Generated on 28 Oct 2025
Kafka is an open-source distributed event and stream-processing platform built to process demanding real-time data feeds. It is inherently scalable, with high throughput and availability.
Getting Started
Quickstarts and intermediate tutorials to get started.
How-Tos
Guides on how to get started with Kafka managed clusters, how to modify users and databases, and how to improve performance and high availability.
Reference
API and CLI reference documentation for the Kafka database service, including example requests and available parameters.
Concepts
Explanations and definitions of core concepts in Kafka.
Details
Features, plans and pricing, availability, limits, known issues, and more.
Latest Updates
17 September 2025
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Now in public preview, you can now enable storage autoscaling on all Managed Database engines. To enable autoscaling, see our resizing guides for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, OpenSearch, and Kafka.
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Storage autoscaling is now in general availability. Additionally, you can now reduce your cluster’s amount of additional storage, as long as the new storage size is greater than or equal to the latest backup’s size plus any data growth since then and a 25% buffer.
7 July 2025
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You can now enable a Kafka cluster’s schema registry, ensuring compatibility between producers and consumers and preventing schema mismatches.
28 February 2025
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All managed databases except MongoDB now support up to 2,000 IP addresses as trusted sources. To add trusted sources, see our guides for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Caching, MongoDB, OpenSearch, and Kafka.
For more information, see all Kafka release notes.