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and insight by viewing the metrics captured from the AdminClient
. For more information
see KIP-324
+
Kafka now supports Zstandard compression from KIP-110.
+ You must upgrade the broker as well as clients to make use of it. Consumers prior to 2.1.0 will not be able to read from topics which use
+ Zstandard compression, so you should not enable it for a topic until all downstream consumers are upgraded. See the KIP for more detail.
+