:_mod-docs-content-type: CONCEPT

Configure clients to use quotas so that a user does not overload Kafka brokers.

.Example Kafka user quota configuration
[source,yaml,subs=attributes+]
----
spec:
  quotas:
    producerByteRate: 1048576
    consumerByteRate: 2097152
    requestPercentage: 55
    controllerMutationRate: 10
----

For more information, see the link:{ApacheKafkaDocsBase}design/design/[Apache Kafka design documentation^].
