Amazon MSK Console now supports viewing Kafka topics with new public APIs

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports viewing topics directly through the Amazon MSK console, making it easier to inspect all your Kafka topics without setting up Kafka admin clients. You can browse and search topics within a cluster, quickly review replication settings and partition counts, and drill into individual topics to examine detailed configuration, partition-level information, and metrics. These console capabilities are powered by three new MSK APIs, ListTopics, DescribeTopic, and DescribeTopicPartitions that you can also use directly for programmatic access. The ListTopics API returns the list of all topics in a cluster, while the DescribeTopic and DescribeTopicPartitions APIs provide detailed configuration and partition information for a topic. All three APIs are available through the AWS CLI and AWS SDKs.

These MSK topic viewing capabilities are available for all Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters using Kafka version 3.6 and above across AWS regions where Amazon MSK is offered. To start using these features, you'll need to set up the appropriate IAM permissions. To learn more on how to get started, see the Amazon MSK Developer Guide.