Confluent Control Center Release Notes

Control Center is a web-based tool for managing and monitoring Confluent Platform.

Control Center is continuously updated with improvements and new features. This page highlights significant user-facing features and updates to the product.

[5/15/2025] Control Center version 2.0.0

New features

  • Compatible with Confluent Platform 7.5 - 7.9 versions

  • Supports monitoring of multiple clusters with up to 400K partitions (including replication).

  • Support for Basic Authentication with TLS, as well as mutual TLS (mTLS) for secure communications between internal Control Center components.

  • Features a lightweight design that lowers system requirements. For more information, see Confluent Control Center Installation.

Warnings

  • Upgrades from the Control Center (Legacy) to Control Center isn’t supported.

  • Migration of metrics from Control Center (Legacy) 7.x versions to Control Center isn’t supported. Users are encouraged to run both versions for a transition period. For more information, see Confluent Control Center Installation.

  • You must run Control Center on a separate host/vm/container/machine than Control Center (Legacy). If you must use the same host (vm/container/machine), first remove Control Center (Legacy) completely and then perform a fresh installation of Control Center.

  • The following alerts supported in Confluent Platform 7.x versions aren’t supported and cannot be migrated.

    • ZooKeeper Disconnected

    • Average latency (ms)

    • Consumer lead

    • Consumption difference

    • Maximum latency (ms)