> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.conduktor.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Kafka UI and management

> Conduktor Console is a Kafka UI for managing topics, consumer groups, Schema Registry, and Kafka Connect. Monitor, secure, and govern your Kafka clusters.

Conduktor Console (previously Platform) is the centralized Kafka UI and control plane for managing Kafka.

## Streamline Apache Kafka

Conduktor will transform your approach and interactions with Apache Kafka. We give you a single platform for Kafka management, testing, monitoring, data quality, security, and data governance.

Console is one of the main [Conduktor components](/guide/conduktor-in-production/deploy-artifacts) and together with [Gateway](/guide/conduktor-in-production/deploy-artifacts/deploy-gateway) make up the Conduktor platform:

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## What Console manages

* **[Kafka topics](/guide/manage-kafka/kafka-resources/topics)**: create, browse, produce, consume
* **[Consumer groups](/guide/manage-kafka/kafka-resources/consumer-groups)**: monitor lag and health
* **[Schema Registry](/guide/manage-kafka/kafka-resources/schema-registry)**: manage Avro, Protobuf, JSON schemas
* **[Kafka Connect](/guide/manage-kafka/kafka-resources/kafka-connect)**: deploy and monitor connectors
* **[Kafka monitoring](/guide/monitor-brokers-apps)**: broker health, partition status, consumer lag
* **[RBAC](/guide/conduktor-in-production/admin/set-up-rbac)**: fine-grained access control per user and group
* **[Data masking](/guide/conduktor-in-production/admin/data-masking)**: protect PII at display time
* **[Audit logs](/guide/conduktor-in-production/admin/audit-logs)**: full record of all actions

## Related resources

* [Deploy Console](/guide/conduktor-in-production/deploy-artifacts/deploy-console)
* [Console resource reference](/guide/reference/console-reference)
* [Console API](https://developers.conduktor.io/?product=console)
* [Give us feedback/request a feature](https://conduktor.io/roadmap)
* [Arrange a technical demo](https://www.conduktor.io/contact/demo)