Unified Stream Manager alerting for Confluent Platform clusters

UpdateAug 25, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

USM monitors conditions such as offline partitions, broker storage exhaustion, and stalled telemetry, delivering alerts to Console, email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, or a webhook.

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