services

Kafka

Managed Apache Kafka broker for event streaming and message queues.

Add a managed Kafka broker for event-driven architectures, log aggregation, and high-throughput message streaming between services.

When to Use#

Event-driven microservice communication
Log aggregation and streaming
Real-time data pipelines
High-throughput message queuing

Configuration#

runix.yaml

yaml

services:
  - name: events
    type: kafka

  - name: producer
    type: web-service
    repo: https://github.com/alice/event-service
    env:
      KAFKA_BROKER: "${events.connection_string}"

  - name: consumer
    type: background-worker
    repo: https://github.com/alice/event-consumer
    env:
      KAFKA_BROKER: "${events.connection_string}"

Kafka UI#

On Pro and Business plans, a Kafka UI is automatically provisioned alongside your broker. It provides a web interface for viewing topics, messages, and consumer groups.

Kafka UI is available as an add-on on Pro and Business plans. It is not included on Hobby or Starter plans.

For simple message queuing without the overhead of Kafka, consider using Redis pub/sub instead.

Redis

Private Service