Add Topics using Control Center

Add topics to a cluster. You can add a topic with default settings, or add a topic with customized settings.

Add a topic with default settings

1. Select a cluster from the navigation bar and click the Topics menu. The Topics Overview for Control Center opens.

2. Click Add a Topic.

   

   New topic form in Control Center

3. Enter a unique topic name.

4. Select or type a custom number of partitions.

5. Click Create with defaults. The topic is created and the overview page opens for the topic.

Add a topic with custom settings

On the customize settings form, a variety of other settings are available. This is not an exhaustive list, but the most commonly modified settings are available. After a topic has been created, further modification of topic settings can be done using the Edit Settings form.

1. Select a cluster from the navigation bar and click the Topics menu. The Topics Overview for Control Center opens.

2. Click Add a Topic.

3. Enter a unique topic name.

   Note

   The topic name and the number of partitions cannot be edited after the topic has been saved. To learn more about topic configuration overrides, creating and deleting topics on the command line, and changing the replication factor, see Topic-level configs and Kafka Operations Post-Deployment.

4. Select or type a custom number of partitions.

5. Click Customize Settings.

   

   New Topic with Customized Settings

   The Topic Summary panel shows a summary of values that will be used to create the topic. If a dashed line (- -) is shown under a configuration option, that setting will inherit the cluster default.

6. Make your additional selections or changes to the custom settings.

7. (Optional) To edit Expert Settings when adding a topic, select Manually configure other topic configuration options.

   

8. Click Save & create. To return to the create with defaults form without customizing settings, click Back before saving.