Kafka Mobility Intelligence · Disaster Recovery Suite

The same control plane, now [governing Kafka Disaster] Recovery.

The Disaster Recovery Suite extends Kafka Mobility Intelligence from migrations to DR: a unified control plane that governs topology design, continuous replication health, recovery-objective tracking, and controlled failover and failback across your Apache Kafka® estate.

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Built on the platform you already run (KMI)

adopt DR without re-registering clusters or rebuilding access control

Up to 80% less manual DR effort

visual topology design, automated diagnostics, guided failover

Always ready

continuous RPO/RTO tracking and pre-validated failover, not incident-time scrambling

Kafka Disaster Recovery Never Ends

Unlike a migration, DR has no end state. Replication is continuous, cluster roles can flip, and the platform must be ready to fail over at any time. Even with replication technologies such as Confluent Cluster Linking in place, platform teams rely on manual runbooks, custom scripts, and dashboards to manage topology, monitor health, track recovery objectives, and execute failover.

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Operational risks of manual DR:

Limited visibility into per-replication-path lag, partition sync, and consumer-group offset freshness
Risky failovers caused by poor visibility into replication readiness, consumer lag, and schema availability on the target
Complex configuration and management of the replication technology underneath, whichever one you run
Fragmented visibility across scripts, dashboards, and log files
Topology drift: the runbook no longer matches what is configured on the clusters
Schema drift that causes downstream application failures after a failover

One DR Control Plane, Extended From Migration

Kafka Mobility Intelligence was originally built to govern migrations; the same control plane now governs DR. It operates above your existing replication technologies to provide the orchestration, diagnostics, and lifecycle governance that replication tools alone do not, letting teams design, activate, operate, and recover Kafka DR from one place, with real-time visibility into replication lag, offset sync, and DR-group health.

Design topology, provision replication

Operate & monitor (RPO/RTO)

Failover and Failback, all governed by the DR control plane

A Delivery Model Built for Certainty

Every engagement follows a proven path: modular, transparent, and matched to where you are in your streaming journey.

What Changes When You Adopt the DR Suite

Manual Kafka migration	Kafka Mobility Intelligence
Manual CLI scripts, custom tooling, and fragmented visibility	Unified migration control plane with guided workflows
Weeks of discovery and documentation	Automated discovery of topics, schemas, connectors, and consumer groups
Trial-and-error configuration of migration infrastructure	Guided setup wizard generates configuration and deploys infrastructure
Sequential coordination with application teams	Parallel, self-service application cutovers
Limited operational visibility into replication state	Partition-level dashboard with real-time progress updates
Manual troubleshooting through logs and scripts	X-Ray shows live producer and consumer activity and recommends next steps instantly
Risky rollback procedures requiring coordination	Controlled rollback workflows with automated strategies

Manual Kafka DR	Kafka Mobility Intelligence
Manual CLI scripts, custom tooling, and fragmented visibility across DR infrastructure	Unified DR control plane with guided workflows
Weeks of topology design and documentation	Visual topology designer with chain and branch composition
Trial-and-error configuration of DR infrastructure	Guided setup wizard generates configuration and provisions infrastructure
Limited operational visibility into replication state	Per-replication-path, per-topic dashboard with real-time progress
Manual troubleshooting through logs and scripts	Automated diagnostics surface replication issues instantly
Risky failover procedures requiring coordination	Controlled failover and failback workflows with automated strategies

Recovery Measured in Minutes, Not Days

80% Reduction in manual DR effort

Up to 80% reduction in manual disaster recovery effort

Troubleshooting reduced to minutes

Validation and troubleshooting reduced from hours to minutes

Failback reduced to minutes

Failback reduced from days of re-synchronization to minutes via pre-provisioned reverse replication paths

Pre-validated failover plan

Failover preparation reduced from incident-time scrambling to a pre-validated plan

Implementation reduced to 2 days

Implementation reduced from ~one week to two days

Topology design reduced to days

Topology design reduced from ~two weeks to one day

Four Phases, One Control Plane

Kafka Mobility Intelligence manages migrations across four phases.

Design

DR Topology Design Intelligence models the target topology and validates its feasibility before any replication is configured.

Visual topology designer supporting multi-cluster chain and branch composition
Active-Passive and Active-Active strategy support
Bidirectional replication modeling so failback does not require a full re-synchronization

Implementation

DR Implementation Intelligence provisions replication between clusters from the declared topology.

Guided setup wizard for configuring DR infrastructure
Support for Confluent Cluster Linking and Confluent Schema Linking (MirrorMaker2, Confluent Replicator, WarpStream Orbit, and WarpStream Schema Linking coming soon)
Topic, consumer-group, and schema scoping with wildcard patterns and exclusions
Automatic topic-ownership assignment for Active-Active setups
Iterative authoring with full review before activation

Operation

DR Operation Intelligence keeps the running DR posture observable and aligned with recovery objectives.

Real-time monitoring of topic replication, replication-path health, and DR-group status
Continuous RPO and RTO tracking against configured targets
DR Diagnostics to identify replication lag, stalled replication, and configuration gaps

Failover, Failback & Decommission

DR Failover and Recovery Intelligence executes controlled failover, failback, and decommission operations.

Guided failover with target, scope, and confirmation gates
Planned and emergency failover modes
Expedited failback using pre-provisioned reverse replication paths, where supported by the underlying technology
Failover history and audit trail for every DR action

Ideal Use Cases

Kafka Mobility Intelligence is built for organizations migrating between Kafka platforms where operational safety, visibility, and coordinated cutovers are critical. It shines brightest on the journey from self-managed Kafka to a managed service.

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