We’re Sunsetting Desktop – Meet Conduktor Scale
Our Desktop product is reaching the end of its journey in 2025. But yours has just started. Say hi to Conduktor Scale—designed to grow with you, no matter where you are on your data streaming journey.
Join These Data Streaming Leaders Who Already Made the Transition
The migration to Conduktor Scale was pretty seamless and made user provisioning and access to Kafka much easier. Updates are now instantly available to everyone, and features like SSO integration and user group management, ease our operations and increase Kafka adoption.
Scot Mcphee, Platform Engineer at Virgin Australia
It’s time to reimagine what’s possible in Data Streaming
Thank you for shaping our products with your trust and feedback. After years of helping you utilize Kafka, Conduktor Desktop is stepping aside. Why? Because your needs have evolved—and so have we.
By the end of 2025, we’re saying goodbye to Desktop to focus on what matters most to our customers: team collaboration, rock-solid governance, and next-level scalability.
We want you to meet Conduktor Scale: a centralized, web-based platform built for modern data streaming, delivering the security, speed, and performance your team needs to stay ahead.
With Scale
Without Scale
More power,
less complexity.
Your evolving data streaming needs require a partner who grows with you. Conduktor Scale delivers unmatched value across every stage of your journey, with fast deployment, hassle-free upgrades, and cutting-edge features that will keep you ahead of the curve.
Benefits of
upgrading to Scale
Unlock value at every stage of your data streaming journey, whether you're just starting out or real-time data is the backbone of your business.
Early Production
For Small Teams in Early Production Streaming: Instantly reduce data streaming complexity with out-of-the-box insights.
mission-critical
For Growing Teams in Mission-Critical Streaming: Boost performance with advanced observability and control.
business wide
For Enterprises in Business Wide Streaming: Scalable solutions that integrate seamlessly with your ecosystem.
Capability
Conduktor Desktop
Conduktor Scale
User Experience
Basic overview of Kafka state
Game-changing: Modern web-based interface that enhances collaboration (shareable URLs and filters, metadata tagging) and provides a platform-wide view with centralized management and governance
Platform upgrades and certificate management
Manual updates on every user’s machine
Effortless: One deployment to upgrade and centralized certificate management
User Access
Lightweight user-level RBAC (topic-level permissions only)
Granular Power: Advanced user and group-level RBAC (permissions on cluster, topics, subjects, consumer groups, connectors)
Data Security
None
Bank-grade security: Field-level Data Masking (Mask sensitive and PII data) and comprehensive audit log of all user activity and data access
SSO Integration
Social OIDC only
Enterprise-ready: Offline OIDC, LDAP, LDAPS, External Group Sync
Real-time Monitoring and alerts
Basic metric snapshots.
Always On: Continuous health checks, real-time alerts on Slack, MS Teams, Webhooks.
Audit Trail
None
Total Visibility: Full traceability of Kafka operations, actions, and data access.
Developer Features
None
Built-In Self-service controls: Infrastructure-as-Code resource management, APIs, CLI and Terraform to streamline your GitOps workflows, topic catalog for data discovery and cross-team collaboration, resource tagging, service account management.
Automation and Data Insights
None
Next-Level Automation and Insights: Execute SQL queries on Kafka message data, track and allocate Kafka costs with Chargeback, auto-restarts.
Performance Improvements
None
Advanced mechanisms to ensure 'instant' load times for large Kafka clusters. Deeper integrations with managed service providers (AWS, Confluent).
migration support
Zero Pain.
All Gain.
We get it — migrations can feel daunting. That’s why we’ve designed the process to be effortless.
Watch this video for a simple, actionable walkthrough.