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Manage, govern, automate Apache Kafka.

Console (Kafka UI), Gateway (Kafka proxy), Schema Registry Proxy. Drive them via CLI, API, Terraform or MCP. Kubernetes or Docker. Bring your own Kafka.

See governance use cases →Open the production guide →Manage Kafka resources →Read the use-cases →
01

Three products to manage, secure and govern Kafka.

Each one solves a different layer. Use one or stack them.

Consolev1.45.1

Kafka UI and control plane.

Topic management, message browsing, schema control, RBAC, audit logs, Self-service, Chargeback. Runs above any Kafka cluster.

  • ○  Topic, consumer group and schema management
  • ○  Self-service for application teams
  • ○  Cost allocation with Chargeback
  • ○  RBAC, SSO and audit logging
Deploy Console →What’s new in v1.45.1 ↗
Gatewayv3.19.1

Programmable Kafka proxy.

Drop-in proxy between clients and brokers. Run Interceptors to encrypt, filter, redact, throttle, multi-tenant or share topics, without changing client code.

  • ○  Field-level encryption and full-payload encryption
  • ○  Virtual Clusters and Partner Zones
  • ○  Traffic control, quota and audit Interceptors
  • ○  Passthrough mode for zero-config drop-in
Deploy Gateway →What’s new in v3.19.1 ↗
Schema Registry ProxyPreview ↗

Schema Registry, governed.

Proxy in front of Confluent Schema Registry. Add SSO, role-based access and observability to schema operations, no client change required.

  • ○  SSO and RBAC on schema reads and writes
  • ○  Audit log of every schema change
  • ○  Observability and metrics
  • ○  Compatible with Confluent Schema Registry
Deploy SRP →Configuration ↗
02

What do you want to ship?

Each card is a Kafka platform pain teams hit past a certain scale. Conduktor ships the answer — pick what’s already on your roadmap.

Governance
Open Self-service to teams
Let app teams own topics, schemas and ACLs under guardrails you control.
Cost
Track and charge back Kafka cost
Allocate Kafka cost across teams. Per-topic, per-app, per-tenant.
Risk
Spot risks with Insights
Risk analysis, cost dashboards, VIP topics and governance reports across your clusters.
Productivity
Drive Kafka from your AI assistant
Connect Claude, Cursor or any MCP client to Console for natural-language Kafka ops.
Security
Encrypt Kafka data
Field-level or full-payload encryption at the Gateway. Transparent to clients.
Risk
Enforce data quality
Validation Rules and Policies catch bad messages before brokers do.
Security
Apply traffic control policies
Throttle, audit or block clients at the Gateway with interceptor rules.
Governance
Share data with partners
Expose selective topics to external orgs with Partner Zones.
Governance
Run multi-tenant Kafka with Virtual Clusters
Carve one physical Kafka into many isolated logical clusters with their own ACLs and quotas.
03

Automate everything in the agents era.

Every Conduktor primitive is API-first: declare it in Terraform, drive it from CI, manage from CLI, or let an MCP-aware agent handle the rest.

CLI
Manage Console and Gateway resources from your terminal. Wire into CI/CD.
conduktor apply -f topic.yaml
REST API
Full REST surface for every Console and Gateway resource. OpenAPI generated.
GET /self-serve/v1/topic-policy
Terraform
Manage Conduktor resources as code alongside your infrastructure modules.
resource “conduktor_gateway_vclusters”
MCP
Plug AI assistants into Console via Model Context Protocol. Read-only or read-write.
claude mcp add conduktor
Reference tool

Kafka Options Explorer

Compare Kafka configs across every version. Read KIPs, decode error codes, plan upgrades.

  • Compare broker, producer, consumer and connect configs side by side
  • Browse every KIP with summaries and status
  • Generate upgrade reports between any two versions
  • Look up error codes and wire protocol changes
Open the explorer →
Deploying at scale?

Talk to us about production rollouts.

HA topology, security hardening, Self-service rollout, migration from a competitor. Our team helps deploy Conduktor in real Kafka platforms.

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Deploying Conduktor at scale