# Features

* **Configuration wizard** — configure your Kafka clusters right in the UI
* **Multi-Cluster Management** — monitor and manage all your clusters in one place
* **Performance Monitoring with Metrics Dashboard** — track key Kafka metrics with a lightweight dashboard
* **View Kafka Brokers** — view topic and partition assignments, controller status
* **View Kafka Topics** — view partition count, replication status, and custom configuration
* **View Consumer Groups** — view per-partition parked offsets, combined and per-partition lag
* **Browse Messages** — browse messages with JSON, plain text, and Avro encoding
* **Dynamic Topic Configuration** — create and configure new topics with dynamic configuration
* **Configurable Authentification** — secure your installation with optional Github/Gitlab/Google OAuth 2.0
* **Custom serialization/deserialization plugins** - use a ready-to-go serde for your data like AWS Glue or Smile, or code your own!
* **Role-based access control** - [manage permissions](https://github.com/provectus/kafka-ui/wiki/RBAC-\(role-based-access-control\)) to access the UI with granular precision
* **Data masking** - [obfuscate](https://github.com/provectus/kafka-ui/blob/master/documentation/guides/DataMasking.md) sensitive data in topic messages
* **ODD Integration** — Explore and monitor kafka related metadata changes in OpenDataDiscovery platform