Changefeed

TiDB Cloud changefeed helps you stream data from TiDB Cloud to other data services. Currently, TiDB Cloud supports streaming data to Apache Kafka and MySQL.

To access the changefeed feature, navigate to the cluster overview page of your TiDB cluster, and then click Changefeed in the left navigation pane. The changefeed list is displayed.

In the changefeed list, you can:

• View the information of the created changefeed, including changefeed's id, checkpoint, and status.
• Operate the changefeed, including creating, pausing, resuming, editing, and deleting the changefeed.

Create a changefeed

To create a changefeed, refer to the tutorials:

• Sink to Apache Kafka (Beta)
• Sink to MySQL

Delete a changefeed

1. Navigate to the cluster overview page of the target TiDB cluster, and then click Changefeed in the left navigation pane.
2. Locate the corresponding changefeed you want to delete, and click ... > Delete in the Action column.

Pause or resume a changefeed

1. Navigate to the cluster overview page of the target TiDB cluster, and then click Changefeed in the left navigation pane.
2. Locate the corresponding changefeed you want to pause or resume, and click ... > Pause/Resume in the Action column.

Edit a changefeed

1. Navigate to the cluster overview page of the target TiDB cluster, and then click Changefeed in the left navigation pane.

2. Locate the changefeed you want to pause, and click ... > Pause in the Action column.

3. When the changefeed status changes to Paused, click ... > Edit to edit the corresponding changefeed.

   TiDB Cloud populates the changefeed configuration by default. You can modify the following configurations:

   • MySQL sink: MySQL Connection and Table Filter.
   • Kafka sink: all configurations.

4. After editing the configuration, click ... > Resume to resume the corresponding changefeed.

Query TiCDC RCUs

1. Navigate to the cluster overview page of the target TiDB cluster, and then click Changefeed in the left navigation pane.
2. You can see the current TiCDC Replication Capacity Units (RCUs) in the upper-left corner of the page.

Changefeed billing

To learn the billing for changefeeds in TiDB Cloud, see Changefeed billing.