Enabling Smart Connect

Notes and Constraints

• Enabling Smart Connect incurs additional broker fees.

  For example, if you enable Smart Connect for a kafka.4u8g.cluster instance, at least two more kafka.4u8g brokers will be created for Smart Connect and you need to pay for them.

• Unavailable for single-node instances.

Prerequisites

• A Kafka instance has been created and is in the Running state.
• auto.create.groups.enable is set to true. If no, modify it by referring to Modifying Kafka Instance Configuration Parameters.

Procedure

1. Log in to the Kafka console.
2. Click in the upper left corner to select the region where your instance is located.
3. Enable Smart Connect using one of the following methods:
   • In the row containing the desired Kafka instance, choose More > Enable Smart Connect.
   • Click the desired Kafka instance to go to the instance details page. Choose > Enable Smart Connect in the upper right corner.
   • Click the desired Kafka instance to go to the instance details page. Click next to Smart Connect.
   • Click the desired Kafka instance to go to the instance details page. In the navigation pane, choose Smart Connect. Click Enable Smart Connect.

4. Click , enable Smart Connect, set 2–16 brokers as required, and click Next.
   

   By default, two brokers will be used. If synchronization traffic between two Kafka instances is estimated to be large, for example, greater than 50 MB/s, use more brokers.

5. On the displayed Enabling Smart Connect for Kafka Instance page, ensure that Smart Connect is enabled and click Submit.

   Smart Connect has been successfully enabled if the task is in the Successful state on the Current Tasks tab page of the Instance > Background Tasks page.

Follow-up Operations

Proceed to Replicating Kafka Instance Data, Dumping Kafka Data to Object Storage Service (OBS), to synchronize data between DMS for Kafka and other cloud services.

Related Document

To enable Smart Connect by calling an API, see Enabling Smart Connect (Pay-per-Use Instance).