Unable to enable Kafka feature on Azure Event Hub

Question

I am trying to enable the Kafka feature on my Event Hub as described in the following link

https://www.codit.eu/blog/getting-familiar-with-azure-event-hubs-for-apache-kafka/?country_sel=uk

However, as you can see from my image of my Event Hub Namespace, I'm not provided with the option to Enable Kafka.

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I read a past SO post where the answer was "As of now, “enable Kafka” feature is available on newly created Event Hubs." Also, the feature was only available in certain regions.

However, as you can see from my image, my Event Hub is within a region where Kafka is available and its newly created.

Therefore, can someone let me know why I can't see the Kafka feature in order to enable it?

However, as you can see from the image

Answer 1

The Kafka endpoint for the Event hub namespace is automatically enabled, so there is no such option during creation.

Note that Event Hubs for Kafka is available only on standard and dedicated tiers. The basic tier doesn't support Kafka on Event Hubs(see the Note section in this doc). But in the image you provided, I see you are creating a Basic tier eventhub namespace. Please try to create a Standard tier eventhub namespace, like below:

After the Standard tier eventhub namespace is created, you can check Kafka is enabled as stated in the screenshot below: