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# Kafka UI for Apache Kafka®

To work with Managed Service for Apache Kafka® clusters, you can use Kafka UI. It will help you track data streams, troubleshoot issues, manage [brokers](brokers.md), your cluster, [producers and consumers](producers-consumers.md).

Main web UI features:

* Managing [topics](topics.md#topics):
   * Creating, editing, and deleting topics.
   * Updating topic configurations (number of partitions, replication).
   * Monitoring topic sizes and their performance.
   * Viewing metrics for each topic.

* Working with messages:
   * Viewing message content in various formats, e.g., JSON, Avro, Protobuf, or Plain Text.
   * Sending messages to topics.
   * Searching messages by content and metadata.
   * Filtering messages by labels.

* Monitoring [consumers](producers-consumers.md):
   * Viewing consumer groups and their state.
   * Tracking message processing delay (consumer lag).
   * Managing consumer offsets.
   * Monitoring consumer activity.

* Managing a cluster:
   * Viewing information about brokers and their state.
   * Monitoring cluster configuration. 
   * Viewing partitions and their distribution.
   * Viewing performance metrics.

* Additional features:
   * Support for managing multiple clusters.
   * Configuration of authentication and authorization.
   * Data and configuration export.
   * Light and dark UI themes.

For more information on using the web UI, see the [Kafka UI for Apache Kafka® documentation](https://ui.docs.kafbat.io/).


For a step-by-step guide on how to enable Kafka UI, see [here](../operations/kafka-ui-enable.md).