configure pulsar tiered storage to offload old topic segments to s3
domain: pulsar.apache.org · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Configure the S3 (or S3-compatible) offloader driver and bucket, region, and credentials in broker.conf or namespace-level offload policies.
Set an offload threshold on the namespace or topic so segments beyond that size trigger automatic offload.
Optionally set a threshold of 0 to offload as soon as possible, or a negative value to disable automatic offloading and rely on manual pulsar-admin topics offload calls.
Trigger a manual offload with pulsar-admin topics offload --size-threshold for immediate testing, then check status with pulsar-admin topics offload-status.
Verify consumers reading historical offloaded data transparently trigger reads back from S3 without special client configuration.
Known gotchas
Automatic offload only runs when a new ledger segment is created; a namespace with low throughput can sit well past its configured threshold without offloading until enough new data forces a segment roll.
Offloaded data still requires the original bucket and credentials to remain valid indefinitely for historical reads; losing access effectively makes that backlog unreadable even though the topic metadata still references it.
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