The power of Kafka, in a managed, cost-effective package
Build high-throughput, low-latency data streams without the complexity of managing their infrastructure. We'll handle the time-intensive tasks of provisioning, configuration, and running Kafka clusters, so you can focus on creating powerful apps and delivering value to your customers.
Simplify your streaming architecture and amplify your business
Get simple, all-inclusive, fixed pricing
Don't worry about unexpected costs—always know what you'll pay with transparent pricing.
Spin up a cluster in minutes
Provision highly available Kafka clusters fast via the UI, CLI, or API.
Monitor and maintain with ease
Get insights, set alerts, and monitor performance without managing a cluster 24/7.
Enjoy the power of Kafka without the pain
Take advantage of high throughput, low latency, data replication, and a simplified, more efficient architecture—all without the administrative burden.
Horizontal Scaling Now Available for Managed Kafka
Discover how you can improve the reliability of your Kafka clusters by easily adding storage to meet fluctuating workload demands.
How to quickly spin up and set up a Kafka cluster
Watch this quick walkthrough of how to get started with a Kafka cluster on DigitalOcean.
Kafka without the administration burden
Optimize Kafka clusters based on your business needs and leave the complications of infrastructure management to us.
Easy scalability
Easily scale your clusters vertically and horizontally based on capacity and performance requirements so that you can optimize costs and avoid underutilization. At any time, you can scale the configuration plan, the number of brokers, and the total disk storage of your Kafka cluster.
Automatic updates
We update your clusters automatically, keeping them stable and secure with minimal disruption to your business.
High availability
In the event of a broker failure, Managed Kafka will automatically swap in a healthy broker while the rest of your cluster continues to push and pull messages without downtime. You can modify the number of brokers based on your availability needs, such as adding more brokers to increase total cluster availability.
Quick and easy setup
Launch a Kafka cluster with just a few clicks from our simplified UI or API. Then add topics, consumers, and producers.
End-to-end security
Kafka clusters run in your account's private network and are unreachable via the public internet unless the source is whitelisted. Data is also encrypted in transit and at rest.
Stable-performance
You can provision Kafka clusters on 100% dedicated virtual CPUs, so your streaming services will maintain high performance.
Integrated insights and alerting
Set alerts so you can take better-informed actions to optimize your cluster performance and react faster to problems to keep your customers happy.
Better Reliability
Why Kafka?
Kafka is an open-source distributed event and stream-processing platform built to process demanding real-time data feeds. Kafka is great for businesses in data analytics, the Internet of Things, and streaming which often deploy a complex microservice architecture that relies on large amounts of data to move fast between applications. With Kafka, businesses can make more insightful decisions in real-time, increase data producers like sensors, and add data consumers like customers—without worrying about scalability, performance issues, and complex architecture.
Predictable pricing
Always know what you'll pay with monthly caps and flat pricing across all data centers, all over the world.
Three-node cluster - Shared vCPUs
$147
Three-node cluster - Dedicated vCPUs
$597
Trusted by businesses worldwide
DigitalOcean's Managed Kafka offering has been a game-changer for us at Datacake. By taking care of the operational aspects of running our Kafka cluster, we have been able to focus our attention on what really matters - building a great product.
Lukas Klein
Chief Technical Officer, Datacake
DigitalOcean Managed Kafka simplified and sped up our management of Kafka—self-managing Kafka, it would take about eight weeks to go from initial development to a production-ready system. With DigitalOcean Managed Kafka, we cut that timeline to just one week.
Daniel Hendrie
Chief Technical Officer, Kairos Sports Tech
Dive into the details
Explore our Kafka product documents to read up on features, pricing, platform status, API, and Managed Kafka release notes.
World-class support
Superior support services are designed to meet your needs, whether you are a startup, a large business, or anything in between.
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