Kafka Multi-tenancy

Question

Is it possible to create multiple independent clusters on a distributed environment and manage it through the confluent control center? If yes, how can I do that on AWS cloud?

Answer 1

Yes, you can add multiple clusters to Control Center via the Clusters tab.

In fact, the production deployment pattern on the Confluent site actual recommends using a dedicated "metrics Kafka cluster" that sits alongside your other producer/consumer cluster(s), with all MetricsReporter configurations pointing at the other cluster. This way, if your "main cluster" is down, then Control Center would still be available