Google Cloud’s Managed Service for Apache Kafka launched a generally available generator that streams synthetic data within two minutes.

Google Cloud made a synthetic-data generator generally available for its Managed Service for Apache Kafka. The tool is designed to populate a newly created Kafka cluster with mock data without requiring the user to modify a client application or start a separate virtual machine.

Google said users can begin sending synthetic data in three clicks. The service can start streaming data to the cluster in less than two minutes.

The generator is positioned as a testing utility for clusters and new features. The announcement concerns synthetic test-data generation, not production-data ingestion performance or a new Kafka cluster-capacity tier.