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title: "Kafka - How to create topics for your Kafka cluster"
url: https://docs.ovhcloud.com/de/guides/public-cloud/data-analytics/analytics/kafka-create-topics
lang: de
lastUpdated: 2025-08-25
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# Kafka - How to create topics for your Kafka cluster

## Objective

Apache Kafka is an open-source, distributed event streaming platform designed for real-time, large-scale data processing with high scalability, durability, and low latency.

This guide explains how to create Kafka topics via the OVHcloud Control Panel.

## Requirements

- Access to the <ManagerLink to="/">OVHcloud Control Panel</ManagerLink>
- A [Public Cloud project](https://www.ovhcloud.com/de/public-cloud/) in your OVHcloud account
- A [Kafka cluster running](/de/guides/public-cloud/databases/kafka-getting-started.md) on OVHcloud Public Cloud [accepting incoming connections](/de/guides/public-cloud/databases/kafka-capabilities.md)

## Instructions

### Create Kafka topics

Topics can be seen as categories, allowing you to organize your Kafka records. Producers write to topics, and consumers read from topics.

To create Kafka topics, first go to the `Topics` tab then click on the `Add a topic` button:

![Add a topic](/images/guides/public-cloud/data-analytics/analytics/kafka-create-topics/kafka_topics.v2.png)

In advanced configuration you can change the default value for the following parameters:

- Minimum in-sync replica (2 by default)
- Partitions (1 partition by default)
- Replication (3 brokers by default)
- Retention size in bytes (-1: no limitation by default)
- Retention time in hours (-1: no limitation by default)
- Deletion policy

![Create a topic](/images/guides/public-cloud/data-analytics/analytics/kafka-create-topics/kafka_create_topic.v2.png)

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