Control Center is a visualized management platform provided by ApsaraMQ for Confluent. It consists of a key part of ApsaraMQ for Confluent. This topic describes basic operations in Control Center.
Log on to Control Center
Log on to the ApsaraMQ for Confluent console. In the left-side navigation pane, click Instances.
In the top navigation bar, select the region where the ApsaraMQ for Confluent instance that you want to manage resides. Then, on the Instances page, click the name of the instance.
In the upper-right corner of the Instance Details page, click Log on to Console to log on to Control Center.
NoteThe username and password for logging on to Control Center are the username and password of the root user that you configured when you deployed the ApsaraMQ for Confluent instance.
Enter the Home page of Control Center.
Create a topic
Log on to Control Center. On the Home page, click the controlcenter.clusterk card to go to the Cluster overview page.
In the left-side navigation pane, click Topics. Then, in the upper-right corner of the Topics page, click + Add topic.
On the New topic page, specify the topic name and the number of partitions and click Create with defaults.
After you create the topic, go to the topic details page to view the topic details.
Enable schema validation
Create a schema
On the topic details page, click the Schema tab. Then, click Set a schema.
On the Schema tab, select a schema for validation, specify the validation rule, and then click Create.
Enable schema validation
On the topic details page, click the Configuration tab. Then, click Edit settings.
Click Switch to expert mode.
Set the confluent_value_schema_validation parameter to true and click Save changes to enable schema validation for message bodies. After schema validation is enabled, the data format is validated during message sending and consumption.
View broker details
In the left-side navigation pane of the Cluster overview page, click Brokers to view basic information about the brokers.
On the Brokers overview page, click Production or Consumption to go to the Metrics page. You can view metrics such as throughput, request latency, and disk usage on this page.
Use ksqlDB
ksqlDB is an open source streaming SQL engine designed for real-time processing and analysis of data streams in Kafka using SQL statements. ksqlDB can help simplify streaming in Kafka. For more information, see ksqlDB.
View cluster configurations
In the left-side navigation pane of the Cluster overview page, click Cluster settings to view basic information about the cluster.
Click the Cluster defaults tab to view detailed information about the cluster. This tab includes modules such as the Controller, General, and Group Management modules.
Use RBAC to assign roles
Role-based access control (RBAC) is one of the key features provided by ApsaraMQ for Confluent. For more information, see RBAC authorization.
Configure alerts
ApsaraMQ for Confluent allows you to configure alerts for specific business. For more information, see Configure alerts in Control Center.