Topic creation fails due to hitting tier partition limits

Issue

When trying to create a Topic in Redpanda Cloud you may encounter errors due to hitting partition limits for your particular cloud tier.



Cloud Tier partition limits are documented here:

BYOC Tier Limits

Dedicated Cloud Tier Limits

Errors reported when topic creation fails due to hitting partition limits

-Console

Failed to create topic, kafka responded with the following error: INVALID_PARTITIONS: Can not increase partition count due to core limit

- Sample error messages reported in other  kafka clients :

- BROKER_NOT_AVAILABLE: No nodes are available to perform allocation after hard constrains were solved



- INVALID_PARTITIONS: unable to create topic with nn partitions due to hardware constraints

Solution

To check your current partition usage : 

Redpanda Cloud Console > Topics 

You can either to reduce the overall number of partitions (for example by deleting topics no longer needed)  or work with your CSM to scale to a larger Cloud tier.

If you need additional assistance or have questions please reach out to Redpanda Support.