# Introduction to Redpanda Console > For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.redpanda.com/llms.txt). Component-specific: [streaming-full.txt](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming-full.txt) --- title: Introduction to Redpanda Console latest-redpanda-tag: v26.2.1 latest-console-tag: v3.10.0 latest-operator-version: v26.2.1 # EOL = End-of-Life (support lifecycle status) page-is-nearing-eol: "false" page-is-past-eol: "false" page-eol-date: July 28, 2027 latest-connect-version: 4.105.0 docname: index page-component-name: streaming page-version: "26.2" page-component-version: "26.2" page-component-title: Streaming page-relative-src-path: index.adoc page-edit-url: https://github.com/redpanda-data/docs/edit/main/modules/console/pages/index.adoc description: "Learn about Redpanda Console: a web interface for managing and interacting with Redpanda clusters." page-git-created-date: "2023-05-17" page-git-modified-date: "2026-08-13" support-status: supported --- Redpanda Console is a web interface for managing and interacting with Redpanda clusters. Built to provide a seamless experience for developers working with streaming data, Redpanda Console simplifies tasks associated with managing data streams, offering a UI that helps you monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize your streaming workloads. ![overview](_images/overview.png) ## [](#cluster-management)Cluster management Explore a comprehensive overview of your cluster, including: - **Broker monitoring**: View and manage the health, status, and configurations of your brokers. - **Topic management**: Create, configure, and monitor topics, including detailed information on partitions, replicas, and message counts. - **Consumer group insights**: Track the activity and performance of your consumer groups, manage offsets, and identify potential bottlenecks. Consumers that manage offsets outside of Kafka consumer groups, such as Apache Spark Structured Streaming, do not appear here. Flink consumers appear only when Flink is configured to commit offsets on checkpoints. For details, see [Consumer Offsets](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/current/develop/consume-data/consumer-offsets/). - [**Shadow link management**](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/current/manage/disaster-recovery/shadowing/overview/): Create shadow links for asynchronous, offset-preserving replication between distinct Redpanda clusters. The shadow cluster operates in read-only mode while continuously receiving updates from the source cluster. During a disaster, you can failover individual topics or an entire shadow link to make resources fully writable for production traffic. ![broker overview](_images/broker-overview.png) ## [](#data-observability-and-debugging)Data observability and debugging Observe and debug your streaming data: - **Message inspection**: Browse and filter messages within your topics, with options to search by key, timestamp, or custom filters. See [Paginate Messages in Redpanda Console](ui/paginate-messages-events/) to inspect large result sets. - [**Programmable push filters**](ui/programmable-push-filters/): Write custom JavaScript filters to isolate specific messages, enabling deep inspection and debugging. - **Rewind and Replay**: Roll back consumer offsets to reprocess messages, allowing you to correct issues or replay data as needed. ![topic](_images/topic.png) ## [](#access-control)Access control Manage Redpanda users and control who has access to Redpanda Console: - **Visual ACL management**: Create, view, and edit individual ACLs, with role-inherited permissions shown inline so you can see exactly what each principal is authorized to do. - **Role-based access control**: Group permissions into roles and assign roles to users or OIDC groups; manage role membership from a dedicated role page. - **Rotate credentials**: Update user and service account passwords to maintain security without downtime. - **Identity provider integration**: For enterprise users, Redpanda Console integrates with identity providers (IdPs) for single sign-on (SSO), making user management straightforward and secure. ![user](_images/user.png) ## [](#schema-management)Schema management [Manage and browse your schemas](ui/schema-reg/), ensuring your data is correctly structured and validated across your streams. ![schema reg](_images/schema-reg.png) ## [](#connectivity-and-integrations)Connectivity and integrations View and manage Kafka Connect clusters and connectors, simplifying the integration of external systems with your streaming data. > 📝 **NOTE: Community** > > **Kafka Connect is community-supported on [Redpanda Community Slack](https://redpanda.com/slack)**. Redpanda Data does not provide enterprise support for Kafka Connect with Redpanda Console. For a supported and scalable Kafka Connect alternative, try [Redpanda Connect](https://docs.redpanda.com/connect/get-started/). ## [](#who-should-use-redpanda-console)Who should use Redpanda Console? Redpanda Console is designed for: - **Developers** who need to manage, monitor, and debug streaming data without the overhead of complex CLI tools. - **Data engineers** who require a robust interface to manage Redpanda clusters and ensure data pipelines are running smoothly. - **DevOps engineers** who want a single place to monitor the health and performance of streaming data infrastructure. - **Security teams** who need to configure and audit access controls within the data streaming environment. ## [](#suggested-videos)Suggested videos - [Demo: Redpanda Console](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezDYSpC7JcU) ## [](#next-steps)Next steps [Get started](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/current/get-started/quick-start/)