Governance

Governance is the dashboard's compliance view: where the rules defined by an environment's Policies are actually being violated, right now.

Governance section of the Dashboard showing Policy Violations and Quota Breaches

What You Can See

• Policy Violations: topics or operations currently out of compliance with an active Policy, grouped by the kind of rule broken, for example a topic naming convention.
• Quota Breaches: subscriptions or principals nearing or exceeding a configured Quota, a leading indicator before Kafka starts throttling them.

When to Use It

A policy violation or quota breach shown here means something is out of compliance today, not a historical log entry. Use it to catch drift, a topic created without the naming convention a Policy requires, or a consumer approaching a throughput limit, before it becomes an outage or a support ticket. For a historical record of who changed what, see Audit Log instead.

Next Steps

• Policies covers defining the cluster- and topic-level rules monitored here.
• Quotas covers the per-principal throughput limits monitored here.