Confluent Platform is an event streaming platform built on Apache Kafka that provides a comprehensive integration for monitoring and managing its components, including Kafka Connect, REST Proxy, Schema Registry, and ksqlDB. The new Confluent Platform integration with Datadog offers visibility into Kafka brokers, producers, consumers, connectors, workers, and key components of the Confluent Platform, allowing users to quickly pinpoint and fix problems, meet SLOs for reading, writing, and replicating data, and ensure high availability of their cluster. The dashboard surfaces useful metrics to help understand the health of the environment, while custom tags can be added to represent any subset of the deployment. Datadog also provides monitoring capabilities for connectors and workers, ksqlDB metrics and logs, and the health of Schema Registry, ensuring comprehensive visibility into the Confluent Platform environment.