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Stream Ops

Stream Ops is the dashboard's at-a-glance view of every Kafka cluster attached to the current environment: how many are healthy, how much traffic is flowing, and whether any consumer is falling behind.

Stream Ops section of the Dashboard showing Cluster Health, Stream Throughput, and Consumer Lag Watchlist
Stream Ops section of the Dashboard showing Cluster Health, Stream Throughput, and Consumer Lag Watchlist

What You Can See

  • Cluster Health: each attached cluster, with its broker count, message rate, and current lag; select View all to open Kafka Clusters.
  • Stream Throughput: aggregate message rate across all clusters (msg/s), tracked with a short-term trend.
  • Consumer Lag Watchlist: the largest lag observed across any consumer group on any cluster, a leading indicator that a consumer can't keep up with producers.

Each widget can be viewed over a short or long window (1H, 24H, 7D, or 30D).

When to Use It

Stream Ops is the first place to check when something feels off platform-wide, before drilling into a specific cluster. A drop in cluster health or a spike in aggregate lag here points you to which Kafka Cluster needs closer inspection under its own Brokers, Topics, or Consumer Groups tab.

Next Steps

  • Kafka Clusters covers the per-cluster detail behind this summary.
  • Governance covers monitoring policy and quota compliance alongside cluster health.