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This is a new app and the initial draft version. We’ll refine it further based on customer feedback.

Note: Dashboard's images will be cropped and updated appropriately once the dashboards are finalized.

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https://sumologic.atlassian.net/browse/SUMO-264003

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This PR looks great, @akhil-sumologic. I made minor changes (see commit "Updates from review").

Some of the screenshots could be trimmed. But if you can't trim them, that's okay.

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id: confluent-cloud
title: Confluent Cloud
sidebar_label: Confluent Cloud
description: The Sumo Logic App for Confluent Cloud provides deep visibility into your Confluent Cloud environment. The app’s dashboards include 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.
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I'd keep the description shorter

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description: The Sumo Logic App for Confluent Cloud provides deep visibility into your Confluent Cloud environment. The app’s dashboards include 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 operationsenabling proactive troubleshooting and streamlined data streaming operations.
description: The Sumo Logic app for Confluent Cloud offers deep visibility into your environment with dashboards that monitor Kafka performance, consumer lag, producer latency, connector health, Flink compute pools, KSQL activity, and schema registry operations, enabling proactive troubleshooting and efficient data streaming.

The Confluent Cloud app uses metrics:
* [Confluent Cloud runtime metrics](https://api.telemetry.confluent.cloud/docs/descriptors/datasets/cloud).

### Collect Metrics
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### Collect Metrics
### Collecting metrics for the Confluent Cloud app


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.
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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.
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.


* Configure a [Confluent Cloud Metrics Source](/docs/send-data/hosted-collectors/cloud-to-cloud-integration-framework/confluent-cloud-metrics-source/)

## Installing the Confluent Cloud
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## Installing the Confluent Cloud
## Installing the Confluent Cloud app


### Confluent Cloud - Compute Pool

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


### Confluent Cloud - Connectors

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

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

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.
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### Confluent Cloud - Kafka Cluster Topic

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.
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### Confluent Cloud - KSQL

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

Confluent Cloud - Schema Registry dashboard provides details on schema operations, request counts, and traffic types for your Confluent Cloud Schema Registry.
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Hi @akhil-sumologic , thank you so much for your help with this! Just a few minor style stuff.

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