Enabling Access to Kafka Manager

Kafka Manager is the management tool used for maintenance, management, and monitoring of topics, partitions, consumers, and Kafka brokers. The Fusion capability (and a Fusion admin account with the Manage Kafka permission) is required for Kafka Manager access.

To access Kafka Manager using the default Fusion admin user with the Manage Kafka permission:

1. Follow the steps documented in the Fusion capability section: Creating the First System Admin User.

To access Kafka Manager using a non-default Fusion admin user with the Manage Kafka permission:

1. Log in to the jumphost.
2. Browse to https://<cdf_external_hostname>/th/cmak.
3. Log in using the user credentials.

The Kafka Manager login session uses browser session cookies. The login session's inactivity timeout is 60 minutes, but the application internally reuses already-provided credentials to recreate the session seamlessly (if permission is still valid for that user).

Re-entering Credentials

The user should re-enter credentials only if one of the following circumstances occurs:

• The browser’s cookies or cache are manually cleared.
• When the browser session ends by closing the browser (and the cookie is deleted)
• If the session has expired (60 minutes of inactivity), and the user no longer has the Kafka Manager Fusion permission.