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NetApp Instaclustr Security Advisory – Multiple Kafka CVEs (June 2025)
Instaclustr for Apache Kafka® and Kafka ® Connect 3.9.1 are generally available
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Observability Plugin Is Now Available for OpenSearch on the NetApp Instaclustr Managed Platform
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PostgreSQL
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Apache ZooKeeper
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ClickHouse
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General
NetApp releases Public Preview of Zero Inbound Access on the NetApp Instaclustr Managed Platform
Instaclustr enables Default Encryption for new AWS EBS Volumes
NetApp Instaclustr Security Advisory - CVE-2024-48990
Instaclustr API Rate Limits
Instaclustr disables GCP Soft-Delete on Cloud Storage Buckets
Apache Cassandra
Important Announcement Regarding Cassandra 3.x End-of-Life Support
Updates to Cipher Suites for Cassandra version 4 and above Clusters
Security Advisory – Cassandra Lucene Index – CVE-2025-26511
Security Advisory for Apache Cassandra Vulnerabilities - CVE-2025-23015, CVE-2025-24860, and CVE-2024-27137
Important Update: Apache Spark™ Add-On Will Reach End of Life on Instaclustr Platform on 10 Aug 2025
Past Announcements
Apache Kafka
NetApp Instaclustr Security Advisory – Multiple Kafka CVEs (June 2025)
Instaclustr for Apache Kafka® and Kafka ® Connect 3.9.1 are generally available
Instaclustr for Apache Kafka® and Apache Kafka® Connect 3.9.0 Are Generally Available
Instaclustr for Apache Kafka® 3.8.1 and Kafka Tiered Storage Are Now Generally Available
Instaclustr for Apache Kafka® and Apache Kafka® Connect 3.7.1 Are Now Generally Available
OpenSearch® Sink Connector for Apache Kafka® is now Available on the Instaclustr Managed Platform
Past Announcements
Apache Kafka Connect
NetApp Instaclustr Security Advisory – Multiple Kafka CVEs (June 2025)
Instaclustr for Apache Kafka® and Kafka ® Connect 3.9.1 are generally available
Instaclustr for Apache Kafka® and Apache Kafka® Connect 3.9.0 Are Generally Available
Instaclustr for Apache Kafka® 3.8.1 and Kafka Tiered Storage Are Now Generally Available
Instaclustr for Apache Kafka® and Apache Kafka® Connect 3.7.1 Are Now Generally Available
OpenSearch® Sink Connector for Apache Kafka® is now Available on the Instaclustr Managed Platform
Past Announcements
Apache ZooKeeper
Past Announcements
Cadence
Instaclustr NetApp Announces AWS Graviton Node Types for Managed Cadence® Workflow
NetApp Announces General Availability of Cadence Web 4.0 and Cadence version 1.3.2 on the NetApp Instaclustr Managed Platform
Past Announcements
OpenSearch
Observability Plugin Is Now Available for OpenSearch on the NetApp Instaclustr Managed Platform
Announcing OpenSearch 2.18 on the Instaclustr Managed Platform
OpenSearch® Sink Connector for Apache Kafka® is now Available on the Instaclustr Managed Platform
Past Announcements
PostgreSQL
Security Advisory for PostgreSQL Vulnerability CVE 2024-7348
Past Announcements
Redis
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Valkey
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Release Log
Archive
Getting Started
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Signing Up
AWS Marketplace
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Updating User Details
Migrating to Social SSO
Change a User's Sign In Option
User Security Settings
Enable 2-Factor Authentication on Your User
Managing Account Details and Access
Restructuring Accounts and Clusters via Instaclustr Organizations
Types of Instaclustr Support Contacts
Setting Account Preferences for Maintenance Event Notifications
Maintenance Event Webhook Notifications
Account Security Options
Single Sign On (SSO)
Add New User to Your Account
User Roles
Service Users
Organization Management
Create a New Organization
Migrate Clusters to another Account within an Organization
Enrol and Remove Accounts from an Organization
Manage Organization Owners
Manage Organization Details
Manage Billing Through the Organization
Manage Multiple Account SSO through the Organization
Organization Account Controls
Console Features
+
The Monitoring Page
Search in Instaclustr Console
API Keys
Adding Tags to Clusters
Deleting a Cluster
Two-Factor Delete
Maintenance Scheduling Features
Maintenance Events
Exclusion Times
Instaclustr Application Logs
Viewing Application Logs
Storing Application Logs in S3
Sending Application Logs to Apache Kafka®
Useful Information
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Zero Inbound Access
Lifecycle Policy
Lifecycle Status of Application Versions
Private Link
Azure Private Link
AWS PrivateLink
Subject Alternative Names
Instaclustr Security Features Overview
PCI Compliance
Regions Not Included in the Cloud Provider Compliance Report
Private Network Clusters
Unsupported Firewall Rules
What Are Virtual Racks?
AWS EBS Encryption and KMS Keys
Creating an AWS Data Centre with EBS Encryption
Adding a KMS Key for Use on the Instaclustr Platform using Run in Instaclustr’s Account (RIIA) Provisioning
Adding a KMS Key for use on the Instaclustr Platform using AWS Run in Your Own Account (RIYOA) Provisioning
Network Address Allocation
SLA Tier
The Provisioning Life Cycle
Bundled Use Only Cluster Deployments
Understanding Encryption on your ANF Cluster
Instaclustr Open Source Project Status
Apache Cassandra
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Getting Started with Apache Cassandra
Creating a Cluster
Creating a PCI Compliant Cassandra Cluster
Creating an AWS PrivateLink enabled Apache Cassandra Cluster on the Instaclustr Platform
Creating an Apache Cassandra Cluster in a Custom VPC
Using Apache Cassandra
Apache Cassandra Support Caveats
Changing the Apache Cassandra default user password
Connect to an Apache Cassandra Cluster
Connect to Apache Cassandra with Cqlsh
Connect to Apache Cassandra with C#
Connect to Apache Cassandra with Golang
Connect to Apache Cassandra with Node.js
Connect to an AWS PrivateLink enabled Apache Cassandra Cluster on the Instaclustr Platform
Avoiding range slice issues in Cassandra
Managing Tombstones in Apache Cassandra
Use VPC Peering (AWS) to Connect to Apache Cassandra | Instaclustr
Use VPC Network Peering (GCP) to Connect to Apache Cassandra
Use VNet Peering (Azure AZ) to Connect to Apache Cassandra
Cluster data centre (CDC) & private addressing (GCP) connection
Data Modelling Recommended Practices
ic-tools for Apache Cassandra SSTables
Apache Cassandra Cluster Operations
Expanding Your Cluster
Setting Up a Multi-Datacentre Cluster with Instaclustr
Cluster Data Backups
Restoring a Cluster
Apache Cassandra version upgrades
In-place Data Centre Resizing
Apache Cassandra Monitoring Metrics Documentation
Monitoring API Metrics Troubleshooting
Accessing Monitoring Tools
Tombstones Per Read
SSTables Per Read
Client Reads and Writes Latency
Reads and Writes Per Second
Thread Pool Metrics
Pending Compactions
Range Slice
Synthetic Transactions
OS Load - Apache Cassandra
Total Hint Metrics
Partition Size
Cluster Health Check
Request Latency
Cassandra CPU Usage
Disk Usage
Network
Additional CPU
Memory
Memory (Heap)
Memory (Off-Heap)
Client Connections
Garbage Collection (ParNew)
Active Schema Versions
CAS Read and CAS Write
Apache Cassandra Add-Ons
+
Apache Spark Add-On for Apache Cassandra
Getting Started with the Apache Spark Add-On for Apache Cassandra
Getting started with Spark Jobserver and Instaclustr
Connecting to Spark via JDBC/ODBC Thrift Server
Instaclustr Spark with SSL configured Apache Cassandra Cluster
Apache Spark Streaming, Apache Kafka and Apache Cassandra Tutorial
Spark MLlib Linear Regression Example
Enable Logging for Completed Applications
Useful Apache Spark References
Apache Lucene
Continuous Backup
Private Network Cluster
Apache Cassandra PCI
Creating a Cassandra Cluster with Debezium Connector
Apache Kafka
+
Useful Concepts
Apache Kafka Client ⇄ Broker Encryption & Mutual Authentication (mTLS)
Apache Kafka KRaft
Apache Kafka Tiered Storage
Zookeeper to KRaft Migration Process
Getting Started with Apache Kafka
Creating an Apache Kafka Cluster
Creating an Apache Kafka® Cluster With Client ⇄ Broker Encryption & Mutual Authentication (mTLS) Enabled
Creating a PCI Compliant Apache Kafka Cluster
Creating a PrivateLink Apache Kafka Cluster
Creating a Private Service Connect Apache Kafka Cluster
Creating an Apache Kafka Cluster in a Custom VPC
Creating an Apache Kafka cluster with dedicated KRaft Controller nodes
Creating a Apache Kafka cluster with dedicated Zookeeper nodes
Using Apache Kafka
Configuring the Keystore to Use Client ⇄ Broker Encryption & Mutual Authentication (mTLS) For Apache Kafka Client
Converting Keystore (JKS) to PEM file
Managing Certificates on a Client ⇄ Broker Encryption & Mutual Authentication (mTLS) Enabled Apache Kafka Cluster
Connect to an Apache Kafka Cluster
Connect to a Private Service Connect Apache Kafka cluster
Connect to a PrivateLink Apache Kafka Cluster
Connect to a PrivateLink Apache Kafka cluster with AWS CloudFormation
Managing Principal ARNs of an Apache Kafka Cluster with AWS PrivateLink
Use Apache Kafka with the Command Line
Use Apache Kafka with Java
Use Apache Kafka with Python
Use Apache Kafka with Ruby
Use Apache Kafka with C#
Working with Apache Kafka Streams API
Connect to Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect Using VPC Peering (AWS)
Using Certificates with Apache Kafka Clients
Managing Apache Kafka Topics
Managing Apache Kafka Users
Managing Apache Kafka ACLs
Apache Kafka Cluster Operations
Expanding Your Cluster
Setting up Mirror Maker
Modifiable Broker Settings
Cluster Config Backup
In-place Resizing for Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka Monitoring Metrics Documentation
Accessing Monitoring Information
Apache Kafka Schema Registry Metrics
Consumer Group Metrics
Consumer Group States
Broker Topic Metrics
Leader Election Rate and Time Ms
Message Conversions
Network and Request Handler Capacity
Fetcher Lag Metrics
Partition Metrics
Fetcher Manager Metrics
Per-Topic Metrics
Replicas
Request Metrics
Synthetic Transactions | Kafka Documentation
Disk Usage | Kafka Documentation
Delayed Operations
Garbage Collection
Network | Apache Kafka Documentation
Memory | Kafka Documentation
CPU Usage | Kafka Documentation
Additional CPU - Kafka
Apache Kafka Add-Ons
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Apache Kafka REST Proxy
Using the Apache Kafka Schema Registry
Enabling PCI
Using the Karapace Schema Registry
Using the Karapace REST Proxy
Using Kafka Tiered Storage
Apache Kafka Connect
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Getting Started With Apache Kafka Connect
Creating an Apache Kafka Connect Cluster
Custom Kafka Connect Connectors
Use IAM roles and policies to provide the Kafka Connect cluster with access to AWS S3 bucket
Using non-Instaclustr Kafka Clusters
Using Apache Kafka Connect
Interacting with Apache Kafka Connect
Connect to Instaclustr Managed Clusters
Updating custom connectors
Starting a connector
Troubleshooting your Kafka connectors
Tutorial: Using Kafka with Amazon S3
Tutorial: Using Kafka with MQTT
Bundled Connectors
Apache Cassandra Sink Connector
AWS S3 Source and Sink Connector
ClickHouse Sink Connector
Elasticsearch Sink Connector
JDBC Source and Sink Connector
OpenSearch Sink Connector
SLA Sink Connector
Kafka Mirroring with Kafka Connect
Kafka Connect Monitoring Metrics Documentation
Worker Metrics
Worker Rebalance Metrics
Availability Metrics
Source Connector Metrics
Elasticsearch
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Getting started with Elasticsearch
Creating an Elasticsearch Cluster
Creating an Elasticsearch Cluster with Dedicated Master
Creating an Elasticsearch Cluster with Security Plugins
Creating an Elasticsearch Cluster with Kibana
Using Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch Connecting to a Cluster
Security Access Control