Set client quotas

The Quotas page needs the broker_configs privilege, and changes need alter_quotas on a cluster with writable: true. The Kafka user of klens needs DescribeConfigs on the Cluster resource to read quotas.

Set a quotaCopy Anchor Link

1. On Quotas, select Set quota. To change an existing quota, select its row.
2. Pick the Entity: User, Client ID, User and client ID, or IP.
3. Enter each name. To set the default for every entity without a quota of its own, turn on Default.
4. Enter the values. Leave a value empty for no limit.
   • Produce and Consume in bytes per second.
   • Request time as a percentage.
   • Mutations per second.
   • Connections per second, for an IP entity only.
5. Select Save.

Kafka throttles the clients that match the entity. A save replaces every value of the entity, so an empty value removes that limit.

Remove a quotaCopy Anchor Link

Select Remove quota on the row, then Remove quota in the dialog. Kafka stops throttling the matching clients by this quota. A default quota can still apply to them.