# Troubleshoot Kafka issues across every layer of your stack with Kafka Console

DevFeed: [Troubleshoot Kafka issues across every layer of your stack with Kafka Console](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/troubleshoot-kafka-issues-across-every-layer-of-your-stack-with-kafka-console-2287.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/kafka-console/>)

Author: Tori Engler; Shelly Matskel

Published: 2026-09-10T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Datadog | The Monitor blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/datadog-the-monitor-blog.md>)

Topics: [Kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kafka.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>)

Tags: [apache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apache.md>), [data-streams-monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-streams-monitoring.md>), [debugging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debugging.md>), [event-streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/event-streaming.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kafka.md>), [monitor](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitor.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [root-cause-analysis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/root-cause-analysis.md>)

## AI overview

An overview of Datadog Kafka Console for diagnosing Kafka health and performance issues, inspecting messages, and tuning configurations.

## Source excerpt

Learn how Kafka Console helps you identify Kafka issues, inspect messages, and tune configurations with infrastructure and app context.