Kafka teams are under pressure to move fast and stay compliant. This release helps you do both. We’re tightening control for Central Teams, giving Application Teams clearer visibility into their resources, and making everyday governance more automated, structured, and scalable. 

From more precise lag alerts to better visibility on the applications and connectors you care about, this update pushes Kafka operations closer to how modern teams should work. 

Let’s look at some of the highlights.

Introducing the Application View to Find What Matters Fast

Application sprawl slows everyone down. That’s why we’ve added a centralized application view in the self-service UI, giving application teams the visibility they need to move faster, with confidence.

Now you can:

• Search, filter, and find the applications you own or depend on.

• See who’s responsible for what, at a glance.

• Understand how applications connect and interact, with two degrees of data flow visibility.

• Drill into a single app to see Kafka resources, access rights, and recent changes.

This isn’t just a UI upgrade. It’s a new, more efficient way for application teams to navigate their real-time ecosystem. Transparent, actionable, and built for scale.

More Self-Service Policies, Less Governance Drift

Self-service doesn't mean free-for-all. With our latest policy updates, Central Teams can now impose tighter guardrails on how Application Teams manage Kafka resources, without slowing them down.

Enforce naming conventions. Lock down Create/Delete permissions. Require metadata and external ticket references. Prevent teams from adding individual users, enforcing access grating through approved groups.

These new policies bring structure where it matters most: permissions, service accounts, and resource ownership, resulting in less drift, more consistency, and security practices that scale with your organization.

Control stays centralized. Teams stay productive. Governance stays intact.

Precision Alerting, Now at the Topic Level

Lag alerts just got smarter. With this release, you can now create consumer group lag alerts scoped to a specific topic. Because in real-world Kafka operations, broad alerts are noise.

This new level of granularity isn’t just about convenience. It’s about control and operational efficiency. When multiple teams share the same consumer group, traditional lag alerts leave them guessing, hindering response times. Now, you get targeted visibility into the exact topics slowing down, so you can act fast.

This isn’t just better monitoring, it’s faster root cause detection, fewer false alarms, and more focused ops.

Compliance with PCI-DSS Now Easier with User Activity Data

PCI-DSS is the global standard for protecting payment card information. Essentially, if your business handles payment cards, you need to follow it. Requirement 8.1.4 says that inactive user accounts have to be removed or disabled within 90 days. Why? Because dormant accounts are prime targets for attackers.

With this release, Conduktor now exposes each user’s last activity timestamp via the API, giving your security processes the signal they need to act. Most of our customers already automate user cleanup and now they can plug Conduktor into that flow with zero guesswork.

It’s a small data point with big compliance impact.

Make Sense of Your Kafka Connectors, Faster

Our customers often have to manage, and govern, hundreds of Kafka connectors, and doing this without context normally leads to chaos. With this release, you can now display and filter connectors by labels, turning a cluttered list into an organized, team-aligned, searchable view.

Use labels to track ownership, environments, data domains (whatever your governance model requires). It’s how modern teams avoid cross-team collisions, flag rogue connectors, and keep operations tight.

Clear structure. Faster ops. More accountability. Built for scale.

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This release is built for teams like yours who need visibility, precision, and governance without sacrificing speed. Whether you're centralizing control, enforcing policy, or on the consumer side trying to make sense of growing complexity, the tools are now in your hands.

Log in to explore the new features or talk to us about how to scale your Kafka operations with Conduktor. Book a demo today.

For a full list of what’s included in this month’s release please read the release notes.