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July 09, 2025
General availability: Metrics for all Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka resources are now available, with some exceptions. Exceptions include the request_count and topic_error_count metrics for Kafka clusters and Kafka Connect connectors. For a list of supported metrics, see Metrics for Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka.
May 29, 2025
Public preview: Google Managed Service for Apache Kafka now offers schema registry support. For more information about the feature, see the schema registry overview or get started with an Avro producer in Java.
May 06, 2025
General availability: Managed Service for Apache Kafka now supports configuring standard Apache Kafka ACLs using REST, gRPC, and gcloud CLI. For more information, see Access control with IAM and Kafka ACLs.
March 31, 2025
Public preview: Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka now supports Kafka Connect. Kafka Connect provides a curated set of built-in connector plugins hosted in Connect clusters. Configure these connector plugins to create connectors that let you stream data at scale between Managed Service for Apache Kafka clusters and other systems, such as external Kafka deployments, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, or Pub/Sub. For more information, see Kafka Connect overview.
December 19, 2024
Documentation is now available to help you choose between Pub/Sub and Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka. The comparison is based on factors such as operational ease, portability, existing Kafka setup, and integration with other Google Cloud products. A detailed feature comparison table is also included. For more information, see Choose Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka or Pub/Sub.
December 13, 2024
Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka now supports moving open source Kafka data to Google Cloud using various Dataflow templates. You can move Kafka data to Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka, BigQuery, and Cloud Storage. For more information about these data movement use cases, see Move Kafka data in Google Cloud.
November 12, 2024
Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka is now in General Availability (GA).
October 02, 2024
Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka clusters now run on Apache Kafka version 3.7.1.
August 09, 2024
Apache Kafka for BigQuery is now called Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka.
July 24, 2024
Client library samples for Python are now added to all relevant pages. For more information, see Apache Kafka for BigQuery client libraries.
July 10, 2024
Terraform samples are now available for creating clusters and topics. For more information, see Provision Apache Kafka for BigQuery resources with Terraform.
June 27, 2024
Client library samples for Java and Go are now added to all relevant pages. For more information, see Apache Kafka for BigQuery client libraries.