Kafka UI for Apache Kafka®

To work with Managed Service for Apache Kafka® clusters, you can use Kafka UI. It will help you track data streams, troubleshoot issues, manage brokers, your cluster, producers and consumers.

Main web UI features:

• Managing topics:

  • Creating, editing, and deleting topics.
  • Updating topic configurations (number of partitions, replication).
  • Monitoring topic sizes and their performance.
  • Viewing metrics for each topic.

• Working with messages:

  • Viewing message content in various formats, e.g., JSON, Avro, Protobuf, or Plain Text.
  • Sending messages to topics.
  • Searching messages by content and metadata.
  • Filtering messages by labels.

• Monitoring consumers:

  • Viewing consumer groups and their state.
  • Tracking message processing delay (consumer lag).
  • Managing consumer offsets.
  • Monitoring consumer activity.

• Managing a cluster:

  • Viewing information about brokers and their state.
  • Monitoring cluster configuration.
  • Viewing partitions and their distribution.
  • Viewing performance metrics.

• Additional features:

  • Support for managing multiple clusters.
  • Configuration of authentication and authorization.
  • Data and configuration export.
  • Light and dark UI themes.

For more information on using the web UI, see the Kafka UI for Apache Kafka® documentation.

For a step-by-step guide on how to enable Kafka UI, see Kafka UI for Apache Kafka®.