> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://upstash-vector.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Conduktor

> How to monitor and manage Upstash Kafka clusters using Conduktor

[Conduktor](https://www.conduktor.io/) is a quite powerful application to
monitor and manage Apache Kafka clusters. You can connect and monitor your
Upstash Kafka cluster using [Conduktor](https://www.conduktor.io/). Conduktor
has a free for development and testing.

### Install Conduktor

Conduktor is a desktop application. So you need to
[download](https://www.conduktor.io/download/) it first. If you are using a Mac,
you can install it using `brew` too.

```shell
brew tap conduktor/brew
brew install conduktor
```

### Connect Your Cluster

Once you install Conduktor and
[create an Upstash Kafka cluster and topic](../overall/getstarted), you can
connect your cluster to Conduktor. Open Conduktor and click on
`New Kafka Cluster` button.

* You can set any name as `Cluster Name`.
* Copy Kafka endpoint from [Upstash console](https://console.upstash.com) and
  paste to `Bootstrap Servers` field.
* In Upstash console, copy the properties from the `Properties` tab. Paste it to
  the `Additional Properties` field on Conduktor.

<img src="https://mintlify.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/upstash-vector/img/kafka/monitoring/conduktor1.png" width="100%" />

Once you connected to the cluster, now you can produce and consume to your
topics using Conduktor.

<img src="https://mintlify.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/upstash-vector/img/kafka/monitoring/conduktor2.png" width="100%" />