Dashboard

The Streaming Data Manager Dashboard gives you an overview of the topics, brokers, and consumers of your Apache Kafka clusters.

To open the Streaming Data Manager Dashboard, complete the following steps.

Install the CLI tool.
Run the following command.
```
smm dashboard
```
The Streaming Data Manager web interface opens in your browser.

Depending on your setup the web interface can be published in two ways:
- proxied localhost address (default)
- published on an external URL with OIDC authentication

Follow this guide to properly configure access to the Streaming Data Manager UI.

Accessing the UI

Brokers dashboard

Consumers dashboard

Topics dashboard

ACL dashboard