Node
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- Unit
- Software instance of a Confluent Platform component
- Aliases
- Confluent Platform Node; Add-on Node
- Definition
- Confluent Platform Subscription Definitions and Rules: "'Node' means each software instance of a Confluent Platform component (identified below) running on a physical or virtual computing machine."
- Counting rules
- Components that count: Confluent Server, Kafka Broker, ZooKeeper or quorum controllers (not in the KRaft SKU), Kafka Connect Worker, Replicator, MirrorMaker, Operator, Control Center (one Node = Control Center plus Prometheus plus Alertmanager from Control Center 2.0.0), Schema Registry, ksqlDB, REST Proxy, MQTT Proxy. Applications that only use the client API are not Nodes. Each Node is classified Production (including Hot Standby), Pre-Production, Development or Disaster Recovery. If Support Services are used on any component in a cluster, every component in that cluster counts and must be under subscription.
- Floors / minimums
- No minimum stated; use may not exceed the quantity purchased.
- Applies to products
- Confluent Platform
- Confluent Platform Basics
- Customer-Managed Confluent Platform for Confluent Cloud
- Related metrics
- Product category