Kafka

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

8 April 2024

• You can now view hundreds of new database metrics by accessing the metrics API endpoint. For more detailed steps, see our guides for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kafka.

26 February 2024

• You can now customize the amount of nodes in Dedicated CPU Kafka plans to 3, 6, 9, or 15 nodes. For more details, see our guide on how to resize Kafka clusters.

4 December 2023

• You can now add additional storage independently from your chosen database configuration plan when creating or resizing Kafka clusters on DigitalOcean. This provides a more economic option for increasing storage, rather than upgrading your cluster’s entire plan.

  For more details, see our guides on how to resize Kafka clusters.

For more information, see all Kafka release notes.