This topic lists new features, improvements, and changes for Message Queue for Apache Kafka, with links to related documentation.
2026-07-16
Feature name | Description | Type | Related documents |
Serverless Professional Edition instance now available in Indonesia (Jakarta) | You can now purchase Serverless Professional Edition instances in the Indonesia (Jakarta) region. | New |
2026-07-01
Feature name | Description | Type | Related documents |
Migration to cloud / data sync commercialization | The migration to cloud and data sync features are now officially commercialized (end of public beta). For details, see the international site notice. | Announcement |
2026-05-11
Feature name | Description | Type | Related documents |
Topic throttling | Supports configuring independent production and consumption rate limits for individual topics to achieve fine-grained traffic control in multi-tenant shared cluster scenarios. Only Serverless instances support this feature (version ≥ 3.6.0.4). | New |
2025-04-17
Feature name | Description | Type | Related documents |
| If messages are deleted before consumption, a consumer group's partition offset can drop below the minimum offset, causing message accumulation. You can now monitor this scenario and configure alerts. | New |
2025-03-12
Feature | Description | Type | References |
Serverless Basic Edition instance | Serverless Basic Edition instances are now available. | New |
2025-02-07
Feature name | Description | Feature type | References |
Serverless Professional Edition instance | You can now purchase Serverless Professional Edition instances. | New |
2025-01-24
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Health inspection | Message Queue for Kafka enhances its health inspection feature, enabling you to efficiently detect and resolve specific anomalies in your cluster and improve service stability. | Enhanced |
October 17, 2024
Feature | Description | Type | References |
Client IP Address Query | You can now query producer and consumer IP addresses in the console. | New |
2024-04-08
Feature | Description | Type | Related documentation |
Multi-zone deployment upgrade | You can now upgrade a Message Queue for Apache Kafka Professional Edition instance from a single-zone to a multi-zone deployment. | New |
2023-08-09
Feature | Description | Type | Documentation |
Migration | ApsaraMQ for Kafka introduces the migration feature, which integrates the previous migration router.
| New |
February 24, 2023
Feature | Description | Type | References |
Partition rebalancing and traffic redirection | Message Queue for Apache Kafka supports partition rebalancing and traffic redirection.
| New |
2022-12-22
Feature name | Description | Feature type | Related documentation |
Monitoring and alerting | Message Queue for Apache Kafka now provides the following instance-level monitoring metrics:
| New |
December 6, 2022
Feature | Description | Type | Documentation |
Flexible group creation | Consumer groups created with the flexible group creation feature now appear on the Groups page. | New |
2022-11-23
Feature | Description | Type | References |
Instance configuration upgrades and downgrades Important The instance downgrade feature is in a canary release. |
| New | |
Change the billing method from pay-as-you-go to subscription | You can now change the billing method of an instance in the Not Deployed state from pay-as-you-go to subscription. | Improved | Change the billing method from pay-as-you-go to subscription |
2022-11-17
Feature | Description | Type | Documentation |
View rebalance details in the console | The Message Queue for Apache Kafka console now displays details for consumer rebalances. Details include the time, duration, frequency, cause, and member changes. | New |
2022-09-16
Feature | Description | Type | References |
Launch in South Korea (Seoul) and Thailand (Bangkok) | ApsaraMQ for Kafka is now available in the South Korea (Seoul) and Thailand (Bangkok) regions. | New |
2022-09-05
Feature | Description | Type | References |
Terraform support for disk encryption | You can now configure disk encryption with Terraform when creating an ApsaraMQ for Kafka instance. | New |
2022-08-26
Feature | Description | Type | Related documentation |
Purchasing Message Queue for Kafka instances based on partition specifications | You can now purchase Message Queue for Kafka instances based on partition specifications. Each specification provides a set number of free partitions. Purchasing new instances based on topic specifications is no longer supported. | New |
2022-08-12
Feature name | Description | Type | Related topics |
ApsaraMQ for Kafka Instance Lifecycle | ApsaraMQ for Kafka now supports instance lifecycle management.
| New |
2022-07-14
Feature name | Description | Feature type | Related documentation |
Resource group support | You can now create Message Queue for Apache Kafka instances in resource groups for easier management. | New |
2022-06-13
Feature | Description | Type | References |
Managed Service for Prometheus integration | Managed Service for Prometheus unifies the collection, storage, and display of monitoring data for Message Queue for Apache Kafka, and includes Grafana dashboards and alerting. | New |
May 20, 2022
Feature | Description | Type | Related documents |
Migration router | Enables data synchronization between a self-managed instance and an ApsaraMQ for Kafka instance, or between ApsaraMQ for Kafka instances. | New |
2022-04-18
Feature | Description | Type | References |
Now available in China (Ulanqab) | ApsaraMQ for Kafka is now available in the China (Ulanqab) region. | New |
April 2, 2022
Feature | Description | Type | Related documentation |
Risk detection | ApsaraMQ for Kafka instances are periodically scanned for risks. The risk detection feature reports risks for anomalous metrics, suggests fixes, and sends alert notifications to specified contacts. | New |
March 15, 2022
Feature name | Description | Feature type | References |
Cloud Migration | The Migration to Cloud feature in the Message Queue for Kafka console is optimized. You can create migration tasks to migrate self-managed Apache Kafka clusters to Message Queue for Kafka instances for an improved migration experience. | New |
March 14, 2022
Feature name | Description | Change type | Related documents |
Service availability in the Philippines (Manila) region | ApsaraMQ for Kafka now supports the Philippines (Manila) region. | New |
2022-01-19
Feature | Description | Type | Documentation |
Message retrieval | Enables message retrieval by topic partition, offset range, time range, and keywords in the message key and value. | New |
Release history
For releases of ApsaraMQ for Kafka before 2022, see Release notes (earlier than 2022).