Creating a stream in Data Streams

1. In the management console, select the folder to create a data stream in.

2. Select Data Streams.

3. Click Create stream.

4. Specify the Yandex Managed Service for YDB database or create a new one. If you opted for creating a new database, click after creating it to update the list of databases.

5. Enter a name for the stream. The naming requirements are as follows:

   • The name must be from 3 to 63 characters long.
   • It may contain lowercase Latin letters, numbers, and hyphens.
   • The first character must be a letter and the last character cannot be a hyphen.

6. Specify the number of data shards.

   Warning

   You cannot reduce the number of shards for the created stream.

7. Set the maximum shard throughput. A stream's throughput is equal to the product of the number of shards by the throughput of each of them.

8. Select a pricing mode (for serverless databases).

9. Select data storage settings:

   • Size Limit: Specify the maximum data storage size.
   • Time Limit: Specify the maximum data retention period for the stream.

10. Click Create.

Wait for the stream to start. Once the stream is ready for use, its status will change from CREATING to ACTIVE.