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Restarting a Kafka Instance

You can restart one or more Kafka instances in batches on the DMS for Kafka console.

Notes and Constraints

  • When a Kafka instance is being restarted, message consumption and production requests of clients will be rejected.
  • To maintain service connections during instance restart, configure the retry mechanism on the client.

Prerequisite

The status of the Kafka instance you want to restart is either Running or Faulty.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the console.
  2. Click in the upper left corner to select the region where your instance is located.
  3. Click and choose Middleware > Distributed Message Service (for Kafka) to open the console of DMS for Kafka.
  4. In the navigation pane, choose Kafka Instances.
  5. Restart Kafka instances using one of the following methods:

    • Select one or more Kafka instances and click Restart in the upper left corner.
    • In the row containing the desired instance, click Restart.
    • Click the desired Kafka instance to go to the instance details page. In the upper right corner, click Restart.

  6. In the Restart Instance dialog box, click Yes to restart the Kafka instance.

    It takes 3 to 15 minutes to restart a Kafka instance. After the instance is successfully restarted, its status should be Running.

    Restarting a Kafka instance only restarts the instance process and does not restart the VM where the instance is located.

Parent topic: Managing Instances