Overview

Topic is a category name where messages are stored and published. With CKafka, producers write messages to topics, and consumers read messages from topics. To enable horizontal scaling, a topic is divided into multiple partitions. This allows you to horizontally scale your resources by adding more partitions in case of performance bottlenecks.

This document describes how to manage the topics under an existing instance in the CKafka console.

Directions

Creating topic

1. Log in to the CKafka console.

2. On the Instance List page, click the ID/Name of the target instance to enter the instance details page.

3. On the instance details page, click Topic Management at the top and click Create.

4. In the Create Topic window, set the number of partitions and replicas and other parameters.
   

   • Name: the topic name, which cannot be changed once entered and can contain only letters, digits, underscores, hyphens, and periods.
   • Partition Count: it is a concept in physical partition, where one topic can contain one or more partitions. CKafka uses partition as an allocation unit.
   • Replica Count: the number of partition replicas is used to ensure the high availability of the partition. To ensure data reliability, creating a single-replica topic is not supported. Two replicas are enabled by default.
     Replicas are also counted into the number of partitions. For example, if you create 1 topic with 6 partitions and 2 replicas for each partition, then you have a total of 12 partitions (1 x 6 x 2).
   • Allowlist: when the allowlist is enabled, only IPs in the allowlist can access the topic, which ensures data security. You can enable allowlist in either the Create Topic or Edit Topic window.

5. Click Submit.
   

Viewing topic details

1. Log in to the CKafka console.
2. Click Instance List on the left sidebar and click the ID/Name of the target instance to enter the instance details page.
3. On the instance details page, click Topic Management to view the topic information and enter the topic list page.
4. On the topic list page, click the right triangle icon on the left of the topic name to view the topic details.
   

Deleting topic

Note：

• Deleting a topic will also delete the messages stored in the topic. Please do so with caution.
• Topic deletion is an async operation. After you finish the steps required to delete a topic, it takes 1 minute for the configuration to take effect with ZooKeeper. During this period, if you try to create a topic with the same name as the deleted one, the system will return the error code [4000]10011. Please wait and try again later.

1. On the Instance List page, click the ID/Name of the target instance to enter the instance details page.
2. On the instance details page, select Topic Management and click Delete in the Operation column.
3. In the window that pops up, click Confirm to delete the topic.

Configuring advanced topic parameters

1. On the Instance List page, click the ID/Name of the target instance to enter the instance details page.
2. On the instance details page, select Topic Management.
3. In the Operation column, click Edit > Show advanced configuration and set the following parameters:
   

The parameters are described as follows: