Looks like there has been a change in the Cluster Overview page. It used to show “xxxx partitions used of yyyy available” or similar, but now only shows the partitions used.
Is there still a way to show the maximum partitions for a cluster?
I’m not sure what went into the decision to change but I would guess it’s Confluent Cloud’s transition to elastic scaling. In a sense elastic scaling makes the notion of max a little less interesting / less variable, also gets potentially misleading for elastic clusters (is the max the max before eCKUs increase, or the absolute max). Out of curiosity what kind of cluster do you have? If Basic / Standard, are you on the eCKU-based billing & limits or do you have “legacy partition billing” (see here)? If you’d like to get the max back and/or do something different in the elastic scaling world, I’d recommend dropping a note to Confluent Support that explains the request and includes answers to the above questions.
I’m just a dev and don’t know the billing details. We have a pre-production testing cluster with a partition limit that I monitor to make sure that people don’t put more on there than it can handle. I’m told another “unit” was added to increase the limit, and it would be nice to verify that.
It sounds like you have a Dedicated cluster since an additional unit (CKU) was manually added for you. From the Cluster Overview page, if you go to Settings you should be able to get the same info about partitions used and capacity if you hover over the Partitions bar. Are you able to see it like this:
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Thanks for pointing me to that. I was used to seeing it in the Overview and hadn’t looked in Settings.