Kafka Clusters
Once a Kafka cluster and Schema Registry are attached to an environment through a Gateway, Zilla Console gives you comprehensive visibility into it, letting you monitor brokers, topics, schemas, and other critical components, as well as track usage patterns in real time.
Select Kafka Clusters in the left navigation to see every cluster attached to the current environment.
The Clusters List
Each attached Kafka cluster appears as a card showing its health (Healthy, Warning, or Down), topic count, consumer group count, and connected application count, plus its broker count, Kafka version, and last-sync time. Filter by health status or search by name, and switch to a table view for the same data in columns.
Selecting a cluster opens its bootstrap server address and version, alongside the detail tabs below.
Use Attach Cluster to connect an existing Kafka cluster to the environment, or Create Virtual Cluster to partition a single physical cluster into isolated namespaces per tenant.
What You Can See
- Brokers show the operational state of every Kafka broker in the cluster.
- Topics lists every Kafka topic, its configuration, structure, and health.
- Consumer Groups shows how messages are being consumed across topics.
- ACLs lists the access control entries that define which principals can perform specific operations on cluster resources.
- Quotas displays throughput limits applied to producers and consumers.
- Schemas lists every message schema registered with the cluster's Schema Registry.
Cluster- and topic-level governance rules are managed as Policies, attached to a Virtual Cluster or Gateway Group rather than to the cluster's own tabs.
Next Steps
- Policies covers the governance rules that apply across the clusters and Gateway Groups in an environment.
- API Catalog covers packaging a topic from this cluster into a governed API Product.