Service Overview

Event Streams provides fully managed creation and configuration of the open-source Apache Kafka for large-scale, high-volume message data processing. Samsung Cloud Platform automates the creation and configuration of Apache Kafka through a web-based console, allowing users to configure the main components of Apache Kafka—Broker, Zookeeper, and AKHQ—in either a single or clustered setup.

The Event Streams cluster consists of multiple Broker nodes; you can install between 1 and 10 Brokers, typically deploying three or more. Zookeeper can be installed separately to manage the distributed Brokers, but if not installed separately, it is installed on the Broker nodes. Additionally, we provide AKHQ (Apache Kafka HQ), a tool for managing Kafka, allowing users to perform cluster operation and management through it.

Provided features

Event Streams provides the following features.

• Auto Provisioning: You can configure and set up an Apache Kafka cluster via the UI.
• Operation Control Management: Provides functionality to control the status of running servers. In addition to starting and stopping the cluster, restarting is possible to apply configuration changes.
• AKHQ provision: We provide AKHQ, a tool for managing Kafka, enabling users to manage and monitor clusters.
• Add Broker node: If expansion is required to improve cluster performance and stability, you can add a node with the same specifications as the existing Broker nodes.
• Parameter management: You can configure and modify parameters related to performance improvement and security.
• Monitoring: CPU, memory, performance monitoring information can be accessed via Cloud Monitoring and Servicewatch.

Component

Event Streams provides pre‑validated engine versions and various server types in accordance with its open‑source support policy. Users can select and use them based on the scale of the service they wish to configure.

Engine version

The engine versions supported by Event Streams are as follows.

Technical support can be used until the supplier’s EoTS (End of Technical Service) date, and the EOS date when new creation is stopped is set to six months before the EoTS date.

The EOS and EoTS dates may change according to the supplier’s policy, so please refer to the supplier’s license management policy page for details.

• Apache Kafka: https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/installation/versions-interoperability.html

Server Type

The server types supported by Event Streams are as follows.

For detailed information about the server types provided by Event Streams, refer to Event Streams Server Types.

Standard ess1v2m4

Preliminary Service

This is a list of services that must be pre-configured before creating the service. Please refer to the guide provided for each service and prepare in advance.