Overview

Exoscale Managed Kafka delivers fully managed Kafka clusters so you can stream data in real time without operating brokers yourself. Provision a cluster in minutes, scale as traffic grows, and let Exoscale handle patching, monitoring & backup.

Terminology

Service

a managed Kafka deployment (one or more brokers)

Broker

a single Kafka server that stores topic partitions and serves client requests

Topic

a named stream of records split into partitions

Partition

an ordered, replicated log segment of a topic

Plan

resource & redundancy tier such as startup-2, business-9x-16

ACL

rule that authorises a principal on a topic, group or cluster resource

Schema Registry / Kafka Connect / REST

optional components you can enable per service

Features

Managed lifecycle

automated provisioning, rolling upgrades and in-place re-sizing

High availability

multi-broker clusters, automatic leader election, 99.99 % SLA on Business & Premium plans

Strong security

mTLS certificate authentication by default; optional SASL/PLAIN for testing

Observability built-in

metrics shipped to Exoscale Monitoring dashboards, logs streamable to Object Storage

Add-ons on demand

toggle Kafka Connect, REST Proxy or Schema Registry with a single CLI flag

API-first control

full feature set exposed via exo dbaas; Portal surfaces common day-to-day tasks