Some of the content described in this article is available in meshIQ Manage versions 12.1 and greater.
For a quick overview of what's new or changed, visit the meshIQ Highlights page for a version-by-version breakdown.

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Version 12.x and Later

Easily manage all your Kafka instances by creating widgets for Kafka nodes, clusters, brokers, topics, partitions, consumers, and connectors. You can also create widgets for schemas, schema subjects, and schema subject versions.

For more information about Apache Kafka, refer to https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/.

The screenshots in this article show each object in a Table widget. You can create other aggregation widgets—such as Bar Chart, Pie Chart, Number Block, and Metric Trends—from the same Table widget data by changing the Widget Type field when creating or editing a widget for the same object. For more information, see the Creating Widgets in the Dashboard.

Kafka Clusters

Displays the overall context of the clusters connected. This summary information is gathered from the collective brokers and services.

Kafka Brokers

Displays Kafka brokers across clusters and operational information. Allows for control of cluster properties which can be configured.

Kafka Topics

Displays the topics defined across the clusters and current usage. On the fly updates, such as changing number of partitions, are supported. Messages can be opened from this screen to view associated details.

Users can create and delete topics, change topic attributes such as partition and replication, compare topic definitions including across clusters.

To learn how to create a Kafka Topic, see Create a Kafka Topic.

Kafka Messages

Messages are accessed by drilling down from a topic. They can be filtered by partition, content, or offset, or can tail a given topic. Messages can be read from most recent to least recent.

Users can add messages, load files to topics and save topics to a file.

Kafka Schema (Confluent)

Kafka Schema Subject (Confluent)

To learn how to create a Kafka schema subject, see Create a Kafka Schema Subject.

Kafka Schema Subject Version (Confluent)

Kafka Partition

Kafka Consumer

Kafka Connector

To learn how to create a Kafka Connector, see Create a Kafka Connector.

Kafka KSQL

Kafka MDS

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Version 11.3 and Earlier

Easily manage all your Kafka instances by creating viewlets for Kafka nodes, clusters, brokers, topics, partitions, consumers, and connectors. You can also create viewlets for schemas, schema subjects, and schema subject versions.

Learn how to Create a Remote Kafka Manager Connection.