Conduktor offers a self‑hosted Kafka operations platform that unifies multi‑cluster management, real‑time message debugging, and automated governance for any Kafka deployment. Its Console provides a unified UI for browsing, filtering, and replaying messages with automatic schema decoding, while the Gateway enforces granular RBAC, field‑level masking, and inline encryption, plus integrated observability and alerting. The platform supports automation via Terraform, REST API, and GitOps, enabling secure, compliant scaling of Kafka workloads across on‑prem, cloud, and hybrid environments.
Funding
$30M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Enterprises using Apache Kafka often struggle with fragmented management across multiple clusters, limited visibility into topics and schemas, and manual governance that hampers developer velocity while exposing sensitive data. These challenges are amplified in regulated industries where strict access control, auditability, and compliance are mandatory.
Solution
Conduktor provides a self‑hosted Kafka operations platform that unifies control, monitoring, and governance for any Kafka deployment—whether on‑prem, cloud, or hybrid. The Console offers a multi‑cluster UI for browsing, debugging, and replaying messages with automatic schema decoding, while the Gateway enforces granular RBAC, field‑level data masking, and encryption inline. Integrated observability streams metrics to Prometheus or OpenTelemetry, and built‑in alerts notify teams via Slack, PagerDuty, or webhooks. Automation is supported through a Terraform provider, REST API, and GitOps workflows, enabling CI/CD pipelines to provision resources and apply policies at scale. The platform’s control‑plane/Data‑plane architecture isolates management logic from live traffic, ensuring security and compliance without altering payloads.
Target Audience
Primary customers are platform engineering teams and DevOps groups in large enterprises that run mission‑critical Kafka workloads, especially in finance, healthcare, logistics, and IoT sectors requiring strict security and compliance.
Features
- Multi‑cluster UI for managing topics, schemas, connectors, producers, and consumers across Confluent, AWS MSK, Redpanda, and self‑managed clusters
- Real‑time message browsing, filtering, and replay with automatic Avro, Protobuf, and JSON Schema decoding
- Granular role‑based access control (RBAC) with OIDC/LDAP SSO, field‑level data masking, and inline encryption
- Comprehensive audit trails and PII masking to meet GDPR, DORA, MiCA, and other regulatory requirements
- Built‑in monitoring of hot topics, consumer lag, fan‑out, and dead streams with alerts to Slack, PagerDuty, Prometheus, and webhooks
- Terraform provider, REST API, and GitOps integration for automated provisioning and policy enforcement
- Observability layer exporting metrics to Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry for real‑time visibility