Community Edition is available for Console only.
What’s included
Community Edition gives access to Console for up to 50 users and 3 clusters.Core Kafka management
Core Kafka management
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Topic management (CRUD) | ✓ |
| Topic activity metrics | ✓ |
| Schema Registry management | ✓ |
| Consumer group management | ✓ |
| Kafka Connect management | ✓ |
| ksqlDB management | ✓ |
| ACL and service account management | ✓ |
| Labels | ✓ |
| Multi-cluster management (up to 3) | ✓ |
Data exploration
Data exploration
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Search and filter messages | ✓ |
| JavaScript/JQ filters | ✓ |
| SQL queries on topics | ✓ |
| Produce messages | ✓ |
| Message export | ✓ |
| Live tail | ✓ |
| JSON/Avro/Protobuf support | ✓ |
| Custom serializers | ✓ |
| Message sharing | ✓ |
| DLQ/Reprocess messages | ✓ |
Monitoring
Monitoring
Monitoring in the UI is restricted to showing data for to the last hour only.
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Real-time cluster metrics | ✓ |
| Real-time broker stats | ✓ |
| Real-time consumer lag | ✓ |
| Consumer lag visualization | ✓ |
Access control
Access control
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Basic user RBAC | ✓ |
| SSO via OIDC/SAML | ✓ |
| LDAP/Active Directory | ✓ |
Automation
Automation
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| REST API (OpenAPI) | ✓ |
| API keys/token management | ✓ |
| CLI tool | ✓ |
| Email notifications | ✓ |
| Slack integration | ✓ |
| Microsoft Teams integration | ✓ |
| Webhook support | ✓ |
| MCP | ✓ |
Insights
Insights
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Topics | ✓ |
| Cost control | ✓ |
| VIP topics | ✓ |
What’s not included
The following capabilities require a paid plan:| Category | Features |
|---|---|
| Monitoring | Historical metrics, alerting, Prometheus integration |
| Security | Data masking, audit logs, external group sync, user inactivity management |
| Governance | Self-service catalogs, approval workflows, topic ownership, data lineage |
| Automation | Terraform provider, GitOps integration, auto connector restart |
| Intelligence | Chargeback, cost optimization, cluster utilization analytics |
| Enterprise | Multi-tenancy, disaster recovery, dedicated support |
When to upgrade
Your team is growing- More than 50 users need access to Conduktor
- You need to manage more than 3 Kafka clusters
- Multiple teams need isolated access with group-based permissions
- You need historical metrics to troubleshoot issues that happened hours or days ago
- You want alerts for consumer lag, broker health or custom conditions
- You need Prometheus integration for centralized monitoring
- Automatic connector restart is required for reliability
- Audit logs are required for compliance or security reviews
- Data masking is needed to protect sensitive information
- You want Self-service catalogs so teams can request resources without waiting
- Approval workflows are needed to control access to production topics
- Infrastructure as code with Terraform is part of your workflow
- You need GitOps integration for declarative resource management
- Cost allocation and Chargeback reporting is required for internal billing
- Dedicated support with SLAs for faster issue resolution
- Disaster recovery and multi-tenancy for large-scale deployments