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      • Control Center Overview
      • Installing and configuring Control Center
        • Configuring Control Center
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        • Clusters
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        • Connect
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        • Consumers
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        • Cluster settings
        • Alerts
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          • Configure alerts properties
          • Configure PagerDuty email integration with Control Center alerts
          • Alerts navigation
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          • REST API for alerts history
          • Troubleshooting alerts
        • System Health (deprecated view)
        • Data streams monitoring (deprecated view)
      • Confluent Control Center Security
    • Configure Docker Logging
    • Monitor Streams Applications
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    • Confluent Metadata API Reference

Installing and configuring Control Center¶

Control Center is a component of Confluent Platform and is installed as part of the Confluent Platform bundle.

  • Configuring Control Center
  • Control Center Configuration Reference
  • Check Control Center Version and Enable Auto-Update
  • Control Center Usage Data Collection
  • Control Center Properties Files
  • Connecting Control Center to Confluent Cloud
  • Confluent Monitoring Interceptors
  • Installing Control Center on Kafka
  • Managing Confluent Platform Licenses
  • Troubleshooting Control Center
  • Upgrading Control Center

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