# Monitor Kafka Connect

> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.redpanda.com/llms.txt). Component-specific: [cloud-data-platform-full.txt](https://docs.redpanda.com/cloud-data-platform-full.txt)

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title: Monitor Kafka Connect
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description: Use metrics to monitor the health of Kafka Connect.
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<!-- Source: https://docs.redpanda.com/cloud-data-platform/develop/managed-connectors/monitor-connectors.md -->

> ❗ **IMPORTANT**
>
> -   To enable this feature, contact [Redpanda Support](https://support.redpanda.com/hc/en-us/requests/new). To disable this feature, see [Disable Kafka Connect](https://docs.redpanda.com/cloud-data-platform/develop/managed-connectors/disable-kc/).
>
> -   Redpanda Support does not manage or monitor Kafka Connect. For fully-supported connectors, consider [Redpanda Connect](https://docs.redpanda.com/cloud-data-platform/develop/connect/about/).
>
> -   When Kafka Connect is enabled, there is a dedicated node running even when no connectors are deployed.

You can monitor the health of Kafka Connect with metrics that Redpanda exports through a Prometheus HTTPS endpoint. You can use Grafana to visualize the metrics and set up alerts.

The most important metrics to be monitored by alerts are:

-   connector failed tasks

-   connector lag / connector lag rate


## [](#view-connector-logs)View connector logs

Connector logs are written to the system topic `__redpanda.connectors_logs`. You can view logs in Redpanda Cloud on the Topics page for your cluster, or you can download logs with `rpk`. For example:

```bash
# Last 100 messages (most recent)
rpk topic consume __redpanda.connectors_logs -o -100 -n 100

# Last 10 minutes
rpk topic consume __redpanda.connectors_logs -o @-10m:end

# Stream new logs only (like tail -f)
rpk topic consume __redpanda.connectors_logs -o end

# Filter by connector name
rpk topic consume __redpanda.connectors_logs -o @-10m:end -O json \
  | jq -r 'select(.message | test("<connector-name>"; "i"))'
```

> 📝 **NOTE**
>
> Access to system topics may be restricted by organization/project roles. Log retention follows cluster/system-topic policies and messages may expire.

## [](#limitations)Limitations

The connectors dashboard renders metrics that are exported by managed connectors. However, when a connector does not create a task (for example, an empty topic list), the dashboard will not show metrics for that connector.