Kafka Release Notes

Validated on 17 Sep 2025

September 2025

17 September

• Storage autoscaling is now in general availability. Additionally, you can now reduce your cluster’s amount of additional storage, as long as the new storage size is greater than or equal to the latest backup’s size plus any data growth since then and a 25% buffer.

• Now in public preview, you can now enable storage autoscaling on all Managed Database engines. To enable autoscaling, see our resizing guides for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, OpenSearch, and Kafka.

July 2025

7 July

• You can now enable a Kafka cluster’s schema registry, ensuring compatibility between producers and consumers and preventing schema mismatches.

May 2025

16 May

• New managed database clusters are now automatically provisioned with default alert policies for CPU, memory, and disk utilization at a 90% threshold. These alerts notify you via email when resource usage is high, so you can investigate your application load or scale your cluster. You can modify or remove the default alerts at any time. For more information, see the following:

  • How to Set Up Kafka Cluster Monitoring Alerts
  • How to Set Up MongoDB Cluster Monitoring Alerts
  • How to Set Up MySQL Cluster Monitoring Alerts
  • How to Set Up OpenSearch Cluster Monitoring Alerts
  • How to Set Up PostgreSQL Cluster Monitoring Alerts
  • How to Set Up Valkey Cluster Monitoring Alerts

February 2025

28 February

• All managed databases except MongoDB now support up to 2,000 IP addresses as trusted sources. To add trusted sources, see our guides for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Caching, MongoDB, OpenSearch, and Kafka.

December 2024

20 December

• All Managed Databases are now available in NYC2.

June 2024

17 June

• Managed databases now supports log forwarding to OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, and Rsyslog. You can create and manage log sinks using the control panel and DigitalOcean API. For more detailed steps, see our guides for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, and Kafka.

5 June

• You can now add existing Kafka databases to App Platform apps. This feature is in beta.

April 2024

30 April

• Kafka v3.7 is now available is now available for new and existing clusters.

8 April

• 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.

March 2024

29 March

• 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.

February 2024

26 February

• 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.

December 2023

4 December

• 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.

November 2023

7 November

• DigitalOcean Kafka is now in general availability. For more details, see our Kafka documentation and regional availability matrix.

October 2023

18 October

• The Kafka plan featuring 24 VCPUs, 96 GB RAM, and 600 GB of storage is now deprecated.

11 October

• The following three Kafka plans are now deprecated:

  • 48 VCPUs, 192 GB RAM, 1,200 GB
  • 96 VCPUs, 384 GB RAM, 2,400 GB
  • 120 VCPUs, 480 GB RAM, 3,000 GB

September 2023

25 September

• DigitalOcean Managed Databases now supports Apache Kafka in early availability. For more details, see our Kafka documentation and regional availability matrix.