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CloudKarafka Changelog

The Journey of CloudKarafka

Since the release of CloudKarafka in early 2015, the service has developed continuously. By the feedback from users and new features, we manage to keep CloudKarafka updated, simple and adequate for our users.

2024-05-01

End of Sales

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2024-02-27

End of Life Announcement

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2023-11-15

API keys can now be rotated programmatically.

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2023-06-12

CloudKarafka available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace

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2023-04-12

CloudKarafka available on AWS Marketplace

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2023-03-30

Schema Registry for CloudKarafka

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2023-03-21

Support for Google Stackdriver Logging and AWS CloudWatch Logs

2023-03-03

Apache Kafka version 3.4.0 is now available

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2023-01-24

Release of CloudKarafka Dedicated plan

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2022-09-21

A high severity security vulnerability has been identified in Apache Kafka version >= 2.8.0, all users advised to update to latest patch release.

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2022-03-01

NewRelic metrics integration V1 has been deprecated since it's no longer support by Newrelic.

2022-03-01

We now support all sites (US1, US3, US5 and EU1) for DataDog metrics integrations.

2021-12-29

VPC subscriptions can now be managed separately from your Kafka subscriptions

2021-05-17

Apache Kafka version 2.8.0 is now available

2021-02-06

Apache Kafka version 2.6.1 and 2.7.0 is now available

2020-12-30

The console API now has an endpoint to initiate rolling cluster restarts

2020-10-06

Apache Kafka version 2.5.1 and 2.6.0 is now available

2020-05-12

Ship Kafka logs to DataDog

2020-05-05

A new Shared cluster running 2.5.0 is available in AWS region eu-west

2020-04-28

Kafka 2.4.1 and 2.5.0 available on CloudKarafka

2020-04-16

Improvments to alarms, you can now configure a reminder for active alarms

2019-10-09

Kafka 2.3.0 available on CloudKarafka

2019-05-20

Support added for many new regions in GCE

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2019-05-10

AWS Hongkong (aws-asia-pacific) supported

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2019-04-11

Multi team and SAML role mapping support

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2018-12-14

GCP Finland (europe-north1) is now supported

2018-12-14

AWS Europe (Stockholm, eu-north-1) now supported

2018-12-04

Kafka Versions 2.0.0, 2.0.1 and 2.1.0 is now available when creating a cluster and also for upgrades

2018-12-03

CloudKarafka is now available on Heroku

2018-11-27

The log view has gotten a UI update which lets you show logs for only kafka, zookeeper or any addon

2018-11-05

You can now browse a topic directly from the CloudKarafka MGMT UI, click on a topic and select Browse in the menu bar.

2018-09-20

You can now configure the most requested kafka settings directly from the console

2018-09-11

All new cluster uses XFS as filesystem

2018-08-29

All cluster restarts are performed as rolling restart with health checks

2018-07-05

Launching of a new Apache Kafka Management Interface

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2018-06-13

Introducing Kafka Browser to simplify the debugging. Available for all plans.

2018-05-17

Introducing Kafka Connect to simplify the integration of Kafka with other systems

2018-04-23

Introducing Kafka Schema Registry for dedicated instances, providing a serving layer for metadata.

2018-04-11

Release of Kafka MirrorMaker integration for dedicated instances. An available tool for maintaining a replica of an existing Kafka cluster.

2018-04-03

Release of Kafka REST Proxy integration to make it possible to receive metadata from a cluster and produce and consume messages over a simple REST API

2018-03-07

Made it possible to ship monitoring data from your dedicated instances to an integrated monitoring service

2018-02-23

Added VictorOps and OpsGenie as additional alternatives for receiving alarm notifications

2018-02-22

Introducing possibility to enable CPU, Memory usage and Disk space alarms for CloudKarafka

2018-01-09

Added new CloudKarafka Management Interface

2017-12-20

Introducing permission-based ACL rules for teams

2017-12-07

Support authentication with SASL using SCRAM mechanism

2017-11-08

CloudKarafka on Google Cloud Platform

2017-08-14

Improved CloudKarafka cluster scaling. Dedicated clusters can now be scaled with additional nodes.

2017-06-05

CloudKarafka as an Add-on in Heroku

2017-05-12

Papertrail, Splunk, Loggly and Logentries as CloudKarafka integrations

2016-10-03

Two-factor authentication available for CloudKarafka

2015-02-12

84codes AB launches CloudKarafka