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title: Manage Kafka Clusters
description: Schedule updates, tag clusters, enable schema registry, reconfigure, and destroy clusters.
product: Databases
url: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/kafka/how-to/manage-cluster/
last_updated: "2026-07-31"
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# Manage Kafka Clusters

Generated on 31 Jul 2026

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.

[How to Schedule Automatic Software Updates for Kafka Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/kafka/how-to/schedule-updates/index.html.md): Customize the maintenance window for automatic software updates to your database cluster.

[How to Tag Kafka Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/kafka/how-to/tag/index.html.md): Organize Kafka databases clusters with tags to group and filter databases or create monitoring alert policies for multiple databases at once.

[How to Enable Schema Registry on Kafka Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/kafka/how-to/enable-schema-registry/index.html.md): Enable schema registry to protect your cluster when sending or receiving incorrect, modified, or corrupt data.

[How to Reconfigure Kafka Database Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/kafka/how-to/reconfigure/index.html.md): Edit your database engine’s configuration and parameters via the API.

[How to Destroy Kafka Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/kafka/how-to/destroy/index.html.md): Destroy a database cluster to permanently and irreversibly destroy the cluster, its contents, and its automated backups.