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|c3|
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|c3| is a web-based tool for managing and monitoring Apache Kafka. |c3-short| |version| provides
the functionality for building and monitoring production data pipelines and streaming applications.

Data Streams
   You can use |c3-short| to monitor your data streams end to end, from producer to consumer. Use |c3-short| to verify
   that every message sent is received (and received only once), and to measure system performance end to end. Drill down to
   better understand cluster usage, and identify any problems.

System Health
   |c3-short| can monitor the health of your Kafka clusters. You can see trends for important broker and topic health
   metrics, as well as set alerts on important cluster KPIs.

Kafka Connect Configuration
   You can also use |c3-short| to manage and monitor Kafka Connect: the open source toolkit for connecting external systems
   to Kafka. You can easily add new sources to load data from external data systems and new sinks to write data into external
   data systems. Additionally, you can manage, monitor, and configure connectors with |c3|.

This guide explains the concepts, how to install, and how to use |c3-short|.

Contents:

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   quickstart
   concept
   installation/index
   userguide
   security
   changelog