Kafka Insights, data quality observability, and Partner Zone chargeback

Get operational recommendations from Kafka Insights

Insights monitors your Kafka environment and surfaces issues that need attention: misconfigured topics, wasted resources, and business-critical datasets. No additional integration required.

What Insights covers:

• Risk analysis: Identify misconfigured topics before they cause outages or data loss
• Cost control: Find underutilized or overprovisioned resources
• VIP topics: Protect business-critical topics with targeted alerting
• Governance: Track schema adoption and self-service usage

Future releases will add per-topic optimization, data quality rule coverage, and encryption recommendations.

Use Confluent Cloud Identity Pools

Conduktor integrates with Confluent Cloud Identity Pools, providing visibility into role bindings, ACLs, and which accounts use OIDC or mTLS authentication.

Monitor data quality violations across all topics

Data quality observability evaluates all topics in your Kafka environment. Developers see which quality issues occur, how frequently, and whether they represent real problems.

Two approaches become possible:

Fix at the source: Identify common issues in observability reports and fix them in your code, schemas, or pipelines. Many teams resolve quality problems without enforcement.

Decide on enforcement: For mature, business-critical topics, understand whether enforcement would block real problems or create overhead.

Track Partner Zone usage and revenue

Organizations using Exchange to share data externally can now track usage, costs, and revenue per Partner Zone.

Chargeback provides near-real-time visibility into partner traffic. Teams can visualize consumption patterns, get rollups of shared data, and calculate ROI for individual Partner Zones.

For a full list of changes, read the complete release notes.