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title: "Kafka - How to enable schema registry"
url: https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/public-cloud/data-analytics/analytics/kafka-enable-schema-registry
lang: en
lastUpdated: 2025-08-25
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# Kafka - How to enable schema registry

## 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 enable the schema registry for your Kafka cluster via the OVHcloud Control Panel.

## Requirements

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

## Instructions

### Enable schema registry


To enable schema registry, go to `Configuration` tab from your Kafka cluster. Then scroll to the Kafka specific section and click the schema registry toggle to enable it.

![Enable schema registry](/images/guides/public-cloud/data-analytics/analytics/kafka-enable-schema-registry/kafka_enable_schema_registry.png)

The schema registry could be disabled with the same toggle.


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