April 2026 Product Update: Version bumps and Kafka Client Telemetry in GA

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April 2026 Product Update: Version bumps and Kafka Client Telemetry in GA

April saw lots of updates with Kafka, ClickHouse, and more:

Powering analytics with ClickHouse and FSx.
https://www.instaclustr.com/blog/powering-low-latency-analytics-with-clickhouse-and-amazon-fsx/
Kafka Client Telemetry
https://www.instaclustr.com/blog/introducing-kafka-client-telemetry-centralized-client-metrics-for-instaclustr-managed-apache-kafka/
Version bumps for Kafka:
Released Kafka 3.9.2 and Kafka Connect 3.9.2 to General Availability
Support Karapace Schema Registry 5.2.0 and Karapace Rest Proxy 5.2.0
Released PostgreSQL 18.3, 17.9 and 16.13

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Jaime’s Article
https://instaclustr.com/blog/powering-low-latency-analytics-with-clickhouse-and-amazon-fsx/

Instaclustr Blog
https://instaclustr.com/blog/

Monthly Release Playlist
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z0XI5AHgpxU&list=PLqVewYXd-XX69e6TgXR15BDnIaXnjVZx4

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