The Data Streaming Platform for Kafka Operations
Conduktor is the operational layer for Apache Kafka. The control plane your brokers don't come with. Management, governance, and security for organizations running Kafka seriously.
A data streaming platform is the infrastructure and tooling that organizations use to build, operate, and govern real-time data pipelines. Apache Kafka is the most widely adopted streaming backbone. But Kafka itself doesn't provide the operational layer: multi-team access controls, field-level security, governance automation, or the developer experience that modern platform engineering requires.
Conduktor is the operational platform that sits on top of Kafka to provide these capabilities.
Conduktor Console
The management UI and API for your Kafka estate. Topic management, consumer group monitoring, schema registry, connector management, and developer self-service portal, across all clusters.
Conduktor Gateway
A transparent Kafka proxy that enforces field-level encryption, RBAC, data masking, schema validation, and routing policies. Applications connect to Gateway; Gateway enforces your policies.
conduktor-ctl CLI
Command-line interface for Kafka-as-Code. Apply YAML manifests for topics, ACLs, schemas, and policies. Integrate with CI/CD pipelines for automated Kafka governance.
Data Ingestion
Manage Kafka Connect connectors: deploy, monitor, restart from the UI. Works with any connector in the Kafka Connect ecosystem. Self-service deployment with platform team guardrails.
Data Visibility
Browse and inspect messages in any topic. Search by field, filter by time range, deserialize any format. Full topic lifecycle visibility without CLI tools.
Data Security
Field-level encryption, RBAC, mTLS, data masking, and audit logging. Enforced at the Gateway layer. Every producer and consumer inherits your security policies automatically.
Data Governance
Naming conventions, retention policies, schema standards, ownership model. Automated enforcement, not wiki documentation that developers ignore.
Data Operations
Consumer lag alerts, broker health monitoring, partition management, offset reset. The operational tools your team needs to run Kafka reliably at scale.
Data Sharing
Secure data sharing between teams and with external partners. Virtual clusters with isolated namespaces and controlled access. Partner zones for external data consumers.
Apache Kafka
The distributed streaming backbone. Conduktor extends Kafka with management, security, and governance tooling. It's not an alternative to Kafka.
Confluent Platform
Confluent's commercial Kafka distribution with its own management tooling. Conduktor is cloud and distribution-agnostic (Confluent, MSK, self-managed Kafka, Redpanda).
AWS MSK
Amazon's managed Kafka service. Conduktor works as the management and governance layer on top of MSK, adding capabilities MSK doesn't provide natively.
Azure Event Hubs
Kafka-compatible event streaming on Azure. Conduktor connects to Event Hubs via the Kafka protocol for management and governance.
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What makes Conduktor a "data streaming platform" vs. just a Kafka UI?
A UI is read-only visibility. A data streaming platform is the full operational layer: management, governance, security enforcement, developer self-service, GitOps integration, and programmatic API. Conduktor provides all of these.
Does Conduktor work with non-Kafka streaming systems?
Conduktor is purpose-built for Apache Kafka and Kafka-compatible brokers (Confluent, MSK, Redpanda, Aiven). It doesn't currently support non-Kafka systems like Pulsar or Kinesis.
Can Conduktor replace a cloud provider's Kafka service?
No. Conduktor runs on top of Kafka, not instead of it. It provides the management and governance layer regardless of which Kafka distribution or cloud service you use.
How does Conduktor handle multi-cloud Kafka deployments?
Console connects to Kafka clusters across any cloud provider. Platform teams manage all clusters from one interface. Gateway can route traffic between clusters for failover or migration scenarios.
See the Full Conduktor Platform
Kafka is your data backbone. Conduktor is your operations platform. 30-minute demo covering Console, Gateway, and CLI — and how they work together for platform teams at scale.