Confluent Cloud

Confluent Cloud is a fully managed, cloud-native data streaming platform based on Apache Kafka. It enables real-time data processing, integration, and movement across applications and systems without managing infrastructure. With built-in support for connectors, ksqlDB, and stream governance, it simplifies building scalable, event-driven architectures.

The Sumo Logic app for Confluent Cloud provides deep visibility into your Confluent Cloud environment based on key platform metrics. The app’s dashboards use preconfigured searches and filters to help you monitor Kafka cluster performance, topic-level throughput, consumer lag, producer latency, connector health, Flink compute pool utilization, KSQL activity, and schema registry operations—enabling proactive troubleshooting and streamlined data streaming operations.

Metrics type

The Confluent Cloud app uses metrics:

• Confluent Cloud runtime metrics.

Collecting metrics for the Confluent Cloud app

Sumo Logic supports collecting metrics using the Cloud-to-Cloud integration framework:

• Configure a Confluent Cloud Metrics Source

Installing the Confluent Cloud app

Now that you have set up a collection for Confluent Cloud, install the Sumo Logic app to use the pre-configured dashboards that provide visibility into your environment for real-time analysis of overall usage.

To install the app, do the following:

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Next-Gen App: To install or update the app, you must be an account administrator or a user with Manage Apps, Manage Monitors, Manage Fields, Manage Metric Rules, and Manage Collectors capabilities depending upon the different content types part of the app.

1. Select App Catalog.
2. In the 🔎 Search Apps field, run a search for your desired app, then select it.
3. Click Install App.
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   Sometimes this button says Add Integration.

4. Click Next in the Setup Data section.
5. In the Configure section of your respective app, complete the following fields.
   1. Field Name. If you already have collectors and sources set up, select the configured metadata field name (eg _sourcecategory) or specify other custom metadata (eg: _collector) along with its metadata Field Value.
6. Click Next. You will be redirected to the Preview & Done section.

Post-installation

Once your app is installed, it will appear in your Installed Apps folder, and dashboard panels will start to fill automatically.

Each panel slowly fills with data matching the time range query received since the panel was created. Results will not immediately be available but will be updated with full graphs and charts over time.

Viewing the Confluent Cloud dashboards

Compute Pool

The Confluent Cloud - Compute Pool dashboard provides details on the status and utilization of compute resources in your Confluent Cloud environment.

Use this dashboard to:

• Monitor the average Flink statement status to identify potential issues with stream processing jobs.
• Track CPU utilization against the set limit to ensure optimal resource allocation and prevent performance bottlenecks.
• Analyze trends in CPU minutes consumed over time to optimize cost and capacity planning for your Confluent Cloud deployment.
• Compare current CPU usage across different compute pools to balance workloads and improve overall system efficiency.

Connectors

The Confluent Cloud - Connectors dashboard provides details on the status, performance, and health of Confluent Cloud connectors.

Use this dashboard to:

• Monitor the status of connectors and their tasks to quickly identify any that are failed, paused, or provisioning.
• Track the volume of sent and received records across different connectors to ensure data flow is as expected.
• Analyze the average sent and received bytes to detect any unusual spikes or drops in data transfer.
• Identify potential bottlenecks by correlating connector status with sent/received records and bytes.
• Monitor dead letter queue records to catch any messages that failed to be processed correctly.

Kafka Cluster

The Confluent Cloud - Kafka Cluster dashboard provides details on key performance metrics and operational statistics for your Kafka cluster in Confluent Cloud.

Use this dashboard to:

• Monitor producer latency and cluster load to ensure optimal performance of your Kafka cluster.
• Track active connections, request bytes, and response bytes to identify potential bottlenecks or unusual traffic patterns.
• Analyze request count trends over time to understand usage patterns and plan for capacity needs.

Kafka Cluster Links

The Confluent Cloud – Kafka Cluster Link dashboard provides key insights into cluster link performance and health. It tracks link task counts, mirror topic states, offset lags, data volume, and response metrics—helping monitor cross-cluster replication efficiency, detect mirror errors, and ensure seamless data delivery across environments.

Use this dashboard to:

• Monitor link counts and task activity to ensure proper setup and functioning of cluster replication.
• Track mirror topic count, bytes, and offset lag to assess replication volume and delays.
• Analyze destination response bytes for throughput visibility across clusters.
• Detect mirror transition errors to troubleshoot sync failures efficiently.

Kafka Cluster Topic

The Confluent Cloud - Kafka Cluster Topic dashboard provides details on topic-level metrics for Kafka clusters in Confluent Cloud, including consumer lag, data throughput, and partition information.

Use this dashboard to:

• Monitor consumer lag offsets to identify potential bottlenecks in data processing and ensure timely consumption of messages.
• Analyze the relationship between received and sent bytes to detect any data loss or transmission issues within the Kafka cluster.
• Track the number of received and sent records over time to understand topic usage patterns and optimize resource allocation.
• Observe retained bytes and partition count to manage storage utilization and ensure proper topic scaling.

KSQL

The Confluent Cloud - KSQL dashboard provides details on query performance, data processing, and resource utilization for KSQL operations in Confluent Cloud.

Use this dashboard to:

• Monitor query saturation and identify potential bottlenecks in KSQL operations.
• Track processing errors and query restarts to ensure smooth data flow and query execution.
• Analyze storage utilization and streaming unit consumption to optimize resource allocation.
• Correlate offset lag with processing errors to troubleshoot data processing delays.
• Examine produced and consumed bytes to understand data throughput and potential network issues.

Schema Registry

The Confluent Cloud - Schema Registry dashboard provides details on schema operations, request counts, and traffic types for your Confluent Cloud Schema Registry.

Use this dashboard to:

• Monitor the distribution of schema operations (CREATE, READ, DELETE) to ensure proper usage and identify potential issues with schema management.
• Analyze the ratio of public vs. private traffic to understand access patterns and potential security concerns.
• Track schema count trends over time to manage growth and capacity planning for your Schema Registry.
• Correlate request counts with operation types to identify unusual spikes or drops in schema-related activities.

Upgrade/Downgrade the Confluent Cloud app (Optional)

To update the app, do the following:

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Next-Gen App: To install or update the app, you must be an account administrator or a user with Manage Apps, Manage Monitors, Manage Fields, Manage Metric Rules, and Manage Collectors capabilities depending upon the different content types part of the app.

1. Select App Catalog.
2. In the Search Apps field, search for and then select your app.
   Optionally, you can identify apps that can be upgraded in the Upgrade available section.
3. To upgrade the app, select Upgrade from the Manage dropdown.
   1. If the upgrade does not have any configuration or property changes, you will be redirected to the Preview & Done section.
   2. If the upgrade has any configuration or property changes, you will be redirected to the Setup Data page.
   3. In the Configure section of your respective app, complete the following fields.
      1. Field Name. If you already have collectors and sources set up, select the configured metadata field name (eg _sourcecategory) or specify other custom metadata (eg: _collector) along with its metadata Field Value.
   4. Click Next. You will be redirected to the Preview & Done section.

Post-update

Your upgraded app will be installed in the Installed Apps folder and dashboard panels will start to fill automatically.

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See our Release Notes changelog for new updates in the app.

To revert the app to a previous version, do the following:

1. Select App Catalog.
2. In the Search Apps field, search for and then select your app.
3. To version down the app, select Revert to < previous version of your app > from the Manage dropdown.

Uninstalling the Confluent Cloud app (Optional)

To uninstall the app, do the following:

1. Select App Catalog.
2. In the 🔎 Search Apps field, run a search for your desired app, then select it.
3. Click Uninstall.