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Managing Topics in Confluent Cloud¶
You can create and edit Apache Kafka® topics by using the Confluent Cloud interface. The topics are grouped by cluster.
Important
This feature is disabled when the cluster is VPC peered. For more information, see Features and Capabilities.
Create a Topic¶
From the Environment overview page, click your cluster name.
Click the Topics page and click Create topic.
Specify your topic details and click Create with defaults. For advanced topic settings, click Customize settings.
Modify a Topic¶
Click the Topics page, click the ellipses (
...
) next to your cluster name, and click Settings.Click Edit settings.
Make your changes and click Save changes. By default, only the most commonly modified settings are shown. For advanced settings, scroll to the bottom of the page and click Switch to expert mode.
Important
Some topic configuration parameters are not configurable through this interface. These unmodifiable parameters will display a lock symbol (
) next to them. They cannot be changed in default or expert mode.
Here is a list of the available parameters and whether they can be configured.
Parameter Configurable cleanup.policy Yes cluster Yes compression.type No delete.retention.ms Yes file.delete.delay.ms No flush.messages No flush.ms No follower.replication.throttled.replicas No index.interval.bytes No leader.replication.throttled.replicas No max.message.bytes Yes message.format.version No message.downconversion.enable No message.timestamp.difference.max.ms Yes message.timestamp.type Yes min.cleanable.dirty.ratio No min.compaction.lag.ms Yes min.insync.replicas No name No partitions No preallocate No producer Yes replication.factor Yes retention.bytes Yes retention.ms Yes segment.bytes Yes segment.index.bytes No segment.jitter.ms No segment.ms Yes tier.enable No unclean.leader.election.enable No