# ✍️ Auto-Balance and Optimize Kafka Clusters with Improved Observability and Elasticity in Confluent Platform 7.0

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**Created:** [6 January 2022 18:13 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/auto-balance-and-optimize-kafka-clusters-with-improved-observability-and-elasticity-in-confluent-platform-7-0/3827 "2022-01-06T18:13:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [6 January 2022 18:13 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/auto-balance-and-optimize-kafka-clusters-with-improved-observability-and-elasticity-in-confluent-platform-7-0/3827/1 "2022-01-06T18:13:52Z")

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✨ There’s a new post on the [Confluent blog](https://confluent.io/blog). Here’s a snippet from it:

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While Self-Balancing Clusters (SBC) perform effectively in balancing Apache Kafka® clusters, one of the common themes we hear from our users is that they would love some visibility into the […]

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**[👉 Head over to the blog to read the full article](https://www.confluent.io/blog/auto-balance-and-optimize-kafka-clusters-with-improved-observability/)**