Data governance for Confluent Platform with Unified Stream Manager

After you register a Confluent Platform cluster with Unified Stream Manager (USM), you can use the Confluent Cloud Console to manage data governance across your entire hybrid environment.

USM extends the following Confluent Cloud governance capabilities to your registered Confluent Platform clusters:

• Global Data Catalog: Discover, browse, and manage all your topics, schemas, and connectors from a single, searchable catalog. For more information, see Global Data Catalog.
• Stream Lineage Visualization: Trace your data from origin to destination with end-to-end lineage graphs. You can visually track data flow across your hybrid deployment and click the nodes in the graph to view associated metadata. For more information, see Stream Lineage Visualization.
• Centralized Management: Define, enforce, governance policies—such as data contracts, schema validation rules, compatibility modes, and encryption settings—from the Confluent Cloud Console. These policies are automatically propagated to your registered Confluent Platform clusters to ensure consistency across all environments. For more information, see Centralized Management.

Related topics

• Overview of Unified Stream Manager in Confluent Cloud
• Register your Confluent Platform cluster