Hello Pega Support Team,

I’m reaching out with a licensing question regarding the use of Kafka integration on Pega Platform.

Environment

• Product: Pega Platform

• Version: 8.6

• Deployment: On-Premises

Planned use case
We want to produce and consume events related to Cases using Kafka Data Sets, following the documentation:
https://docs.pega.com/bundle/platform-88/page/platform/decision-management/kafka-data-set.html

Pega will integrate with an existing external Kafka cluster in our company to exchange events related to our customer service journey (case lifecycle / customer interaction events).

Current status
We have already configured the Kafka connection and successfully executed functional tests in our DEV environment, following the documentation above.

Question (Production / licensing impact)
When enabling and using Kafka Data Sets in Production for this use case (publishing and consuming case-related events to/from an external Kafka cluster), does this imply:

1. any additional license purchase (e.g., an add-on product/edition), or

2. any change in licensing terms/metrics (e.g., consumption-based metrics, invocation counts, etc.) compared to our current Pega Platform 8.6 on-prem license?

If there are specific Pega license SKUs/editions or conditions that apply to Kafka Data Sets usage in production, could you please point us to the relevant official guidance and/or confirm what applies to our scenario?

Thank you in advance.

Best regards,
Gabriel