Conduktor Community Edition
The modern Kafka UI and API. Free forever.
Discover and explore topics, messages, and schemas in real time. Ship faster without CLI scripts or custom tooling.
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Let's Not Make Kafka Harder Than It Needs to Be
Topics pile up, consumer groups fall behind, and schemas drift. Conduktor makes it easy for developers to get instant visibility into Kafka from day one so they spend less time investigating and more time shipping.
Core Kafka Operations
Create, inspect, and manage topics, schemas, connectors, and consumer groups across all your clusters.
Advanced Data Exploration
Debug by browsing, filtering, and tailing messages in real time. Produce, replay, and auto-decode Avro, Protobuf, and JSON Schema.
Real-Time Monitoring
Catch issues before they become incidents. Monitor clusters, topics, and consumer lag in real time.
Insights Built In
Health scoring, risk detection for data loss and under-replication, cost optimization, and config recommendations.
API, CLI & MCP
Full programmatic access via REST API, CLI, and AI agent integration through MCP.
SSO & Access Control
OIDC, SAML, and LDAP authentication with granular RBAC, included free.
Solo Developers
One interface for local, staging, and dev clusters. Stop switching between CLI tools.
Startups & Small Teams
Share a Kafka control plane with your team. SSO and RBAC included.
Platform Prototyping
Evaluate Conduktor before an org-wide rollout. Everything you need to prove value.
Open Source Users
Upgrade from CLI tools without losing access to your infrastructure.
Quick-Start: Preconfigured with embedded Redpanda + Datagen
curl -L https://releases.conduktor.io/quick-start -o docker-compose.yml && docker compose upConsole Only: Start Conduktor Community Edition and connect your own Kafka
curl -L https://releases.conduktor.io/console -o docker-compose.yml && docker compose upOnce started, access the console at localhost:8080. See our official GitHub repo for more info.
Simplify Kafka operations
One interface for clusters, topics, schemas, and connectors across Confluent, AWS MSK, Redpanda, or self-managed. No CLI required.
- Unified management for topics, schemas, and connectors in one UI
- Multi-cluster support without context switching
- Native integrations with Confluent Schema Registry and Kafka Connect
- Manage consumer groups including offsets, assignments, and membership
Accelerate troubleshooting
Instant visibility into Kafka data without custom tooling or code, reducing time-to-resolution.
- Debug faster by browsing, filtering, and tailing messages in real-time
- Test without deploying by producing messages directly to topics
- Replay and recover by reprocessing messages without code changes
- Auto-decode formats including Avro, Protobuf, and JSON Schema
Monitor what matters
Continuous monitoring across clusters, topics, and consumers so you can catch issues before they become incidents.
- Real-time monitoring for clusters, topics, and consumer lag
- Schema evolution tracking with version history and change comparison
Know where to focus
Actionable recommendations for health, cost, and risk across your entire Kafka estate.
- Health optimization with partition, retention, and config recommendations
- Risk scoring for data loss and under-replication
- Cost optimization to surface unused, inactive, or over-provisioned topics
Programmatic access and modern AI agent integration.
Full programmatic access to Console capabilities.
Operate Kafka with AI agents via natural language.
curl \
--request GET \
--url http://localhost:8080/public/iam/v2/group/project-a \
--header "Authorization: Bearer $ADMIN_API_KEY" | jq .
# Response:
{
"apiVersion": "v2",
"kind": "Group",
"metadata": {
"name": "project-a"
},
"spec": {
"displayName": "Project A",
"permissions": [...]
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"conduktor-console": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"mcp-remote",
"https://<console-url>/api/mcp",
"--header",
"Authorization: Bearer ${CONDUKTOR_API_TOKEN}"
],
"env": {
"CONDUKTOR_API_TOKEN": "your-api-token"
}
}
}
}"Conduktor has transformed our Kafka management. Its intuitive interface and robust real-time monitoring tools have streamlined our operations, cutting troubleshooting time by over 30%."
Backend Engineer, Greentube
"Out of all the Kafka tools I've used, Conduktor is by far the easiest to implement and has the most thorough set of features. Conduktor makes it easy to navigate and troubleshoot issues."
Chuck
Production Support Engineer, Fermenta Energy
"Conduktor helped us visualize and understand our data streams without the complexity of manual CLI commands. The interface was intuitive, and it made interacting with Kafka much easier."
Data Analyst, Opalean
Is Community Edition really free?
Yes. Free forever, no credit card, no trial expiration. Community is a full-featured product purpose-built for developers and small teams, not a stripped-down enterprise trial.
What's the difference between Conduktor Community Edition and the Conduktor Scale license?
Community includes everything you need to operate Kafka: topics, schemas, connectors, monitoring, insights, API, and SSO. Scale adds production-grade security (group-based RBAC, audit logs), proactive alerting with out-of-the-box Prometheus metrics, advanced governance (federated ownership, data quality rules, cost attribution via chargeback), and IaC automation via Terraform.
How is Community different from open-source Kafka tools?
Open-source tools give you basic CRUD operations. Community adds intelligent features on top: topic health insights, cost optimization, advanced data exploration with filtering and SQL queries, full REST API/CLI/MCP automation, and SSO. It's a professional-grade tool, not just a basic viewer.
Can I use Community in production?
You can, but Community is designed for development. Smaller teams do run it in production. Most enterprises realize they need Conduktor Scale's production-grade capabilities before deploying to critical environments.
When should I consider upgrading?
When you need more users, more clusters, or production-grade features. Your data and configuration carry over seamlessly.
Which Kafka providers are supported?
Any Kafka 2.5+, including Confluent Platform, Amazon MSK, Redpanda, Aiven, and self-managed Apache Kafka.
Can I run it in an air-gapped environment?
Yes. The Docker images work without internet access. Deploy on-premises with full functionality.
Get Started with Conduktor Community
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