Event Endpoint Management continues to be enhanced

Event Endpoint Management continues to be available and enhanced as part of IBM's integration platforms.

End of Marketing announcement for IBM Event Automation

Event Streams and Event Processing are deprecated and no enhancements will be provided. Support and security fixes will be provided in line with published support lifecycle policies. Future event-driven solutions that make use of Apache Kafka and Flink will be delivered by IBM Confluent Platform.

For more information, see the support lifecycle transition and software ordering completion announcement.

Sharing a topic fails when Kafka Proxy is enabled

Symptoms

When Kafka Proxy is enabled, clicking Share for reuse in the Event Streams UI to share Kafka topics with Event Endpoint Management results in the following issues:

  • A UI error notification appears, indicating the topic could not be shared. For example: 
     Unable to share the topic
 Cannot access the Event Endpoint Management cluster. Contact your system administrator.

  • The admin API pod logs an error similar to the following example:

    2025-07-16 12:48:36 ERROR com.ibm.eventstreams.discovery.handlers.EventManagerHandler - There are no eligible endpoints with component(KAFKA), type(EXTERNAL), auth(SCRAM_SHA_512)

Causes

Sharing topics from the Event Streams UI with Event Endpoint Management requires access to Kafka endpoints. When Kafka Proxy is enabled, the configuration restricts this access, resulting in a failure to share topics.

Resolving the problem

To share topics in this scenario, add the topics manually in the Event Endpoint Management UI and connect the topics to the appropriate Kafka cluster.