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Artie Managed Kafka is an Apache Kafka cluster that Artie runs for you on AWS. You create topics and point your apps at it. Artie runs everything underneath.

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What Artie runs

  • Brokers and machines. Each broker runs on its own machine, with three replicas of every partition.
  • TLS. The cluster uses a public TLS certificate, so clients don’t need a truststore.
  • Storage. Storage autoscaling grows each broker’s disk before it fills. Tiered storage moves older messages from broker disks to object storage.
  • Network access. A public address that only accepts the IP ranges you allow.
  • Monitoring. Graphs and consumer groups for every cluster in the Artie Dashboard.

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What you control

  • Topics, partitions, and retention.
  • The cluster’s size: brokers, instance type, and storage per broker.
  • Which IP ranges can connect.

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How you connect

Clients connect over TLS with SASL/SCRAM-SHA-512, using the cluster’s admin user. Any Kafka client that supports SCRAM works. See Connect to your cluster.

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Moving from another Kafka cluster

Already running Kafka somewhere else, like Amazon MSK or your own brokers? Choose Move from another Kafka when you add a cluster and book a call with us. We’ll plan the move with you and help you bring your topics over.

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Next steps

Create a cluster

Pick a size and network access, then start the brokers.

Connect to your cluster

Get the login and configure your clients.

Manage your cluster

Topics, resizing, the IP allowlist, and deleting a cluster.

Limits and specs

Regions, sizes, and retention limits.