Alauda Streaming Service for Kafka

Topic Management

A Topic is a data theme. Producers write information into a Topic, and consumers read information from the Topic. Topics achieve distributed message storage through partitions.

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Creating a Topic

Web Console
  1. Click on Kafka in the left navigation bar.
  2. Click on the target namespace name.
  3. Click on the target instance name.
  4. In the Topic Management tab, click on Create Topic.
  5. Fill in the Topic information. Note: If the Topic Name field is not set, the Topic name will be consistent with the name of the created Kubernetes resource (the Name field).
  6. Click on Create.

Partition Replica example: The replica of Partition 0 is distributed across Broker 2 (Leader) and Broker 1 (Follower)

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Synchronizing a Topic

Web Console
  1. Click on Kafka in the left navigation bar.
  2. Click on the target namespace name.
  3. Click on the target instance name.
  4. In the Topic Management tab, click on Synchronize Topic.
  5. In the pop-up window, select the Topic with the status Running.
  6. Click on Synchronize.

Expanding Topic Partitions

Web Console
  1. Click on Kafka in the left navigation bar.
  2. Click on the target namespace name.
  3. Click on the target instance name.
  4. In the Topic Management tab, click on the target Topic name.
  5. Click on Actions > Expand Partitions.
  6. Set the number of new partitions and select Brokers.
  7. Click on Expand.

Managing Topic Partitions

Web Console
  1. Click on Kafka in the left navigation bar.
  2. Click on the target namespace name.
  3. Click on the target instance name.
  4. In the Topic Management tab, click on the target Topic name.
  5. Click on Actions > Manage Partitions.
  6. Configure the Broker locations for each partition's replicas.
  7. Click on Apply.