# Monitor Confluent Platform with Health+
#### IMPORTANT
**Confluent Health+ is in the End-of-Life (EOL) process.**
Health+ is deprecated and users should plan to migrate to Unified Stream Manager (USM). While Health+
remains operational for existing users, it is scheduled to be retired, or to sunset, on December 31, 2026.
Starting with Confluent Platform version 8.1, Health+ is discontinued for new deployments and Unified Stream Manager is
the recommended alternative for all users.
To begin your migration planning, see [Unified Stream Manager (USM) in Confluent Platform](../usm/overview.md#usm-overview).
Monitor and manage your Confluent Platform environment with Confluent Health+. Ensure the
health of your clusters and minimize business disruption with intelligent
alerts, monitoring, and proactive support based on best practices created by
the inventors Apache Kafka®.
With Confluent Health+, you can:
- **Identify and avoid issues before they occur** with more than fifty intelligent
alerts, tuned from years of experience managing more than five thousand Kafka
clusters in Confluent Cloud.
- **Set up alerts** to send rule-based notifications to endpoints like Slack, Microsoft Teams and email.
- **Easily integrate** with existing monitoring tools, like Prometheus.
- **View all of your critical metrics** in a single cloud-based dashboard.
## Health+ Features
Intelligent alerts
: - Health+ sets up triggers on certain metrics that alert when thresholds are
crossed and notify you of potential issues.
- You can set up alerts for email, Slack, Microsoft Teams
and other alerting platforms using our generic webhook.
- For more information, see [Health+ Intelligent Alerts for Confluent Platform](health-plus-alerts.md#health-plus-alerts).
Monitoring dashboards
: - Use Health+ to monitor and visualize multiple metrics over historical time
periods, to identify issues. Easily view all of your critical metrics in a
single cloud-based dashboard and integrate into existing monitoring tools.
- Metrics are displayed in [Health+ Monitoring Dashboards](health-plus-monitoring-dashboard.md#health-plus-monitoring-dashboard)
and are available using the [Metrics API](/cloud/current/monitoring/metrics-api.html).
Confluent Telemetry Reporter
: - The Confluent Telemetry Reporter is a plugin that runs inside each Confluent Platform
service to push metadata about the service to Confluent. Telemetry Reporter
enables product features based on the metadata, like [Health+](enable-health-plus.md#enable-health-plus).
- Data is sent over HTTP using an encrypted connection. For more information, see
[Configure Telemetry Reporter for Confluent Platform](telemetry.md#telemetry-reporter).
## Health+ Pricing
Confluent Health+ offers a tiered service model. You can use limited features
of Health+ for free, and you can upgrade to the paid tier for full Health+ benefits.
[Contact us](https://www.confluent.io/contact) to learn more about upgrading
to the paid tier of Health+.
Free alerts
: - Active Controller Count
- Connector is degraded
- Connector is failed
- ksqlDB queries in error
- Offline Partitions
- Unclean Leader Elections
- Under Replicated Partitions
- Under Min In-sync Replicas
**Premium alerts**
: - Disk Usage
- Fetch Request Latency
- Fetch Follower Request Latency
- Network Processor Pool Usage
- Produce Request Latency
- Request Handler Pool Usage
| Pricing Tier | Intelligent Alerts | Monitoring Dashboards |
|----------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
| Free | - 9 pre-configured free, “must-have” alerts | - Up to 7 days of historical monitoring data |
| Paid | - 9 pre-configured free, “must-have” alerts
- 6 pre-configured **Premium** alerts | - Up to 30 days of historical monitoring data |
## Related Content
- [Video: Confluent Platform 6.2 introduces Health+](https://youtu.be/6tij7Ufn-rM?t=66)
- [Blog post: Introducing Health+ with Confluent Platform 6.2](https://www.confluent.io/blog/introducing-confluent-platform-6-2/)