# Manage Clusters in Confluent Platform Confluent Platform provides features to help you manage Apache Kafka® cluster rebalancing and cost. The following topics are included in this section: - [Metadata Management of Kafka in Confluent Platform](../kafka-metadata/overview.md#zk-or-kraft)- Discusses the options for metadata storage and leader elections for a cluster. - [Manage Self-Balancing Kafka Clusters in Confluent Platform](sbc/index.md#sbc) - With this feature enabled, a cluster automatically rebalances partitions across brokers when new brokers are added or existing brokers are removed. - [Quick Start for Auto Data Balancing in Confluent Platform](rebalancer/quickstart.md#rebalancer) - A tool that balances data so that the number of leaders and disk usage are even across brokers and racks on a per topic and cluster level while minimizing data movement. [Manage Self-Balancing Kafka Clusters in Confluent Platform](sbc/index.md#sbc) is the preferred alternative to [Quick Start for Auto Data Balancing in Confluent Platform](rebalancer/quickstart.md#rebalancer). - [Tiered Storage in Confluent Platform](tiered-storage.md#tiered-storage) - A feature that helps make storing huge volumes of data in Kafka manageable by reducing operational burden and cost. If you’re just getting started with Confluent Platform and Kafka, see also [Learn More About Confluent Products and Kafka](../get-started/kafka-basics.md#ak-basics) and [Quick Start for Confluent Platform](../get-started/platform-quickstart.md#quickstart). ## Related content - [Control Center for Confluent Platform](https://docs.confluent.io/control-center/current/overview.html) - [Running Kafka in Production with Confluent Platform](../kafka/deployment.md#cp-production-recommendations) - [Change Kafka Configurations Without Restart for Confluent Platform](../kafka/dynamic-config.md#kafka-dynamic-configurations) - [Kafka Streams Operations for Confluent Platform](../streams/operations.md#streams-operations)