Docs Cloud Develop Kafka Connect Monitor Connectors Monitor Kafka Connect To enable this feature, contact Redpanda Support. To disable this feature, see Disable Kafka Connect. Redpanda Support does not manage or monitor Kafka Connect. For fully-supported connectors, consider Redpanda Connect. 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 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: # 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"))' Access to system topics may be restricted by organization/project roles. Log retention follows cluster/system-topic policies and messages may expire. 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. Back to top × Simple online edits For simple changes, such as fixing a typo, you can edit the content directly on GitHub. Edit on GitHub Or, open an issue to let us know about something that you want us to change. Open an issue Contribution guide For extensive content updates, or if you prefer to work locally, read our contribution guide . Was this helpful? thumb_up thumb_down group Ask in the community mail Share your feedback group_add Make a contribution 🎉 Thanks for your feedback! Converters and serialization Disable Kafka Connect