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Control Plane

Connect the Kafka clusters you already run, wherever they live, and manage them through AxonOps.

AxonOps Kafka AI recommendations

Why your data layer needs a control plane

Kafka is built for high-throughput, fault-tolerant event streaming. It solves the hard problems of real-time data distribution at scale. But operating Kafka well means coordinating rolling restarts, topic lifecycle management, ACL governance, consumer lag monitoring, and capacity decisions across clusters that may span teams and environments. Without a dedicated control plane, that coordination fragments across CLI sessions, ad-hoc scripts, and tribal knowledge. AxonOps provides the unified operational surface for observability, maintenance automation, and governance, so your team can focus on what Kafka does best rather than managing the tooling around it.

For Developers

Ask questions in natural language and investigate consumer lag, topic behaviour, broker performance, and message flow against live Kafka state, so engineers can debug production issues faster without bouncing between tools.

For Operators

Run Kafka with AI-assisted analysis, alerting, topic and ACL controls, and operational workflows that help SRE and platform teams diagnose incidents faster and manage clusters with confidence.

AI

AI-assisted Kafka operations

Ask questions in natural language and get answers backed by your live cluster state. AI-assisted analysis reasons over your metrics, logs, consumer lag, and broker configuration, with deep training on Kafka source code and documentation, so responses reflect how Kafka actually behaves instead of generic advice.

  • Natural-language chat over live metrics, logs, lag, and broker configuration
  • AI-assisted root cause analysis that shortens MTTR for on-call engineers
  • AI trained on Kafka source code and documentation
  • AI-guided investigation grounded in live cluster context
Observe

Complete visibility into your Kafka clusters

High-resolution metrics, logs, consumer lag, service checks, and alerting in one Kafka-native surface, configured in seconds so teams can respond with confidence.

  • Set up monitoring and alerting workflows in seconds
  • Broker, KRaft, topic, and consumer group metrics
  • Correlated metrics and logs in one workflow
  • Real-time consumer group lag monitoring
  • Configurable service checks for cluster health
  • Granular alert routing across metrics, logs, lag, connector health, and operations
  • Full alert history for faster triage and confident incident reviews
Operate

Manage topics and access controls with confidence

Full topic lifecycle management and ACL controls from a single, intuitive interface.

  • Topic creation, configuration, and deletion
  • Access control list management and search
  • Topic cloning to reduce errors and save time
  • Full operational history for topic and ACL changes
Schema Registry

Schema Registry management made simple

Browse, search, and manage schemas across all your subjects from one interface. Full visibility into compatibility settings, versions, and schema evolution.

  • Browse and search schemas across all subjects
  • Version history and schema evolution tracking
  • Compatibility level management per subject
Kafka Connect

Kafka Connect management at a glance

Monitor and manage your connectors, tasks, and configurations from a single operational surface.

  • Connector status and task health monitoring
  • Configuration management and updates
  • Connector lifecycle control from one UI
Stream

Enterprise-grade access control for message viewing

Browse and inspect messages directly from the platform with granular permissions integrated to your identity provider.

  • Browse, produce, and consume messages from the UI
  • SSO integration with SAML and OIDC providers
  • Granular role-based permissions per cluster and per topic
  • Comprehensive audit trail tracking user access to topic data
  • No direct access to Kafka ports required
Open

Stay on open Kafka, avoid lock-in

Keep full control over architecture and operations while integrating with your existing stack.

  • Built for Kafka operations
  • Portable operating model
  • Manage Kafka across AWS, Azure, GCP, on-premises, and hybrid environments
  • Works with existing alerting and incident tooling
Stay on open Kafka, avoid lock-in
Operational Impact

Measurable outcomes for Kafka teams

Faster incident detection and diagnosis

High-resolution metrics and correlated logs surface issues in seconds, cutting mean time to detect and resolve.

Real-time consumer lag visibility

Customizable dashboards and alert routing ensure you never miss application performance issues caused by lag.

Lower topic and ACL management overhead

Create, configure, and manage topics and access controls from one UI instead of scattered CLI commands.

Secure message viewing, even in regulated industries

Deploy a fully audited, role-based message viewer with SSO integration, giving teams safe access to topic data without compromising compliance.

Consistent operations across platform and SRE teams

One shared platform with the same dashboards, alerts, and operational workflows for every team member.

See AxonOps live on Kafka

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