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The Insights dashboard helps platform teams:
  • identify configuration issues before they become outages,
  • optimize storage costs,
  • track governance metrics,
  • monitor business-critical topics.
To access the dashboard, click Insights on the left menu in Conduktor UI. Insights dashboard

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Overview

Insights covers four key areas:

Risk analysis

Identify topics at risk of data loss, poor cluster efficiency or load imbalance.

Cost control

Find empty, stale or tiny topics.

VIP topics

Track usage of highly utilized topics.

Governance

Track schema adoption, serialization formats and Self-service coverage for your VIP topics.

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Access to Insights

Access to the Insight information is managed by the RBAC system in Console. The insight information a user sees is based on the permission to view or edit the configuration for a topic. All insight views are filtered to only show data aggregrated across topics where a user has these permissions.

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Metrics summary

At the top of the dashboard you’ll see a cluster-wide summary of all the metrics:
  • Topics - the number of topics in the cluster
  • Partitions - an aggregate partition count across all topics
  • Consumed - the total number of times topics are consumed by consumer groups
  • Topic distribution - a breakdown of topics by type (internal, streams or user)
  • Health score - the cluster health indicator based on our risk analysis
These metrics update dynamically, based on applied filters.

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Filter data

Use the filter at the top of the Insights dashboard to narrow down data across all sections. Filters apply globally to the summary metrics, risk analysis, cost control and VIP topics sections. Filter topics by their classification:
  • Internal - internal topics (e.g., __consumer_offsets)
  • Streams - Kafka Streams internal topics (e.g., changelog, repartition topics)
  • User - application topics created by you
Filter topics by naming patterns:
  • prefix - my-topics* or just my-topics will filter to all topics whose names starts with “my-topics”
  • postfix - *my-topics will filter to all topics whose name ends with “my-topics”
  • contains - *my-topics* will filter to all topics whose name contains “my-topics”
Filter topics by one or more owning Applications (Self-service) to only see the insight data for topics owned by one or a set of applications. You can also filter topics by labels. Select one or more labels to only see topics with matching labels across all the Insights sections.
Clicking a label in any table also applies it as a filter, making it easy to explore related topics.
Click Clear all to remove all applied filters and return to the full cluster view.

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Export data

You can export data as a .zip file containing CSV files. Choose whether to export all available Insights data or only section-specific metrics. When filters are applied, the export includes only the filtered data and file names include a -filtered suffix (e.g., risk-analysis-filtered.csv) to indicate the data is a subset of the full cluster. Share the export with stakeholders, use it for offline analysis, or archive it for audit purposes.