Kafka Long-Term Support

Extend the life of your Kafka deployments and remain compliant with Kafka LTS.

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Keep Your Streaming Data Secure and Upgrade on Your Schedule With Kafka LTS

The upgrade path to Kafka 4.0 is difficult, with the removal of ZooKeeper and other major changes. Many organizations need time to understand how the migration will impact their data infrastructure, but staying on an older version of Kafka that has reached end-of-life presents serious security risks. With Kafka LTS from OpenLogic, teams can upgrade when they’re ready without jeopardizing their streaming data pipelines. 

Benefits of Kafka LTS

  • 3-Year EOL Security: Security patches, bug fixes, and performance updates without the rush to upgrade.
  • More Time to Plan: Align updates with your business needs, not the community support lifecycle.
  • Expert Guidance: Direct access to enterprise architects with deep Kafka experience since 2017.

What’s Included

  • Available for Kafka 3.8 and Kafka 3.9
  • Bug fixes for one year
  • Security patches for three years for critical and high-severity CVEs 

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Why Choose OpenLogic for Kafka Long-Term Support?

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Extend Your Migration Runway

Kafka LTS allows you to allocate resources while ensuring your clusters stay secure and performant. 

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Don’t Get Locked In

Avoid vendor lock-in by deploying open source Kafka instead of costly commercial distributions that come with subpar support.

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Choose Your Level of Support

In addition to long-term support, we also offer LTS plus 24/7 Technical Support with SLAs. 

With Kafka LTS, You Don’t Have to Upgrade Every Year

Kafka releases come out every four months and the community commits to making sure rolling upgrades are possible for the previous three releases. That translates to roughly one year of support for each minor release, which means upgrading annually to stay on a supported version.  

Kafka LTS extends that lifecycle for an additional three years.

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Don’t Wait Until Community Support Ends 

If you’re running Kafka 3.8 or 3.9, the clock is ticking. Avoid disruption and upgrade when you’re ready by securing long-term support before community EOL.

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