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.
You can now reconfigure Kafka databases via the API, which lets you edit many database engine parameters that were previously unavailable for editing. For more detailed steps, see How to Reconfigure Database Clusters.
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.
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.
DigitalOcean Kafka is now in general availability. For more details, see our Kafka documentation and regional availability matrix.
The Kafka plan featuring 24 VCPUs, 96 GB RAM, and 600 GB of storage is now deprecated.
The following three Kafka plans are now deprecated:
DigitalOcean Managed Databases now supports Apache Kafka in early availability. For more details, see our Kafka documentation and regional availability matrix.