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Traffic Control Policies let you enforce limits and rules on Kafka operations to protect your infrastructure and ensure compliance.

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What you can control

Traffic Control Policies work as that validate and enforce rules on: Configuration policies
  • Broker and topic configuration changes
  • Topic creation parameters (replication factor, partition count)
  • Schema ID requirements
Rate limiting policies
  • Producer throughput limits
  • Consumer fetch rate limits
  • Offset commit frequency
  • Consumer group join frequency
  • Connection attempt limits
Access control policies
  • Read-only topics
  • Required client IDs
  • Consumer group restrictions
  • Message header removal

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Benefits

  • Prevent misconfiguration: stop teams from creating topics with dangerous settings
  • Protect cluster performance: rate limit clients before they impact others
  • Enforce standards: require schema IDs, client IDs, or other organizational policies
  • Gradual rollout: apply policies per or

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Available policies