Upcoming migration from ZooKeeper to KRaft for Apache Kafka on Heroku

Change effective on 12 October 2026

On October 19, 2026, we’ll begin migrating Apache Kafka on Heroku cluster infrastructure from ZooKeeper to KRaft. This change modernizes how clusters manage their internal metadata. Heroku will notify you via email when maintenance is scheduled to perform this migration on your Kafka cluster. No action is required from you.