:original_name: mrs_01_0436.html .. _mrs_01_0436: Introduction to KafkaManager ============================ KafkaManager is a tool for managing Apache Kafka and provides GUI-based metric monitoring and management of Kafka clusters. This section applies to MRS 1.9.2 clusters. KafkaManager supports the following functions: - Manage multiple Kafka clusters. - Check cluster status (topics, consumers, offsets, partitions, replicas, and nodes) - Run preferred replica election. - Generate partition assignments with option to select brokers to use. - Run reassignment of partitions (based on generated assignments). - Create a topic with optional topic configurations (Multiple Kafka cluster versions are supported). - Delete a topic (only supported on 0.8.2+ and **delete.topic.enable = true** is set in broker configuration). - Batch generate partition assignments for multiple topics with option to select brokers to use. - Batch run reassignment of partitions for multiple topics. - Add partitions to an existing topic. - Update configurations for an existing topic. - Optionally enable JMX polling for broker-level and topic-level metrics. - Optionally filter out consumers that do not have ids/owner/&offsets/directories in ZooKeeper.