Skip to main contentTraffic Control Policies let you enforce limits and rules on Kafka operations to protect your infrastructure and ensure compliance.
What you can control
Traffic Control Policies work as Gateway Interceptors 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
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 service account or Virtual Cluster
Available policies
