# Confluent Control Center - features, pros and cons

**URL:** <https://forum.confluent.io/t/confluent-control-center-features-pros-and-cons/715>\
**Category:** Graphical tools\
**Created:** [5 February 2021 18:45 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/confluent-control-center-features-pros-and-cons/715 "2021-02-05T18:45:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![whatsupbros](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/whatsupbros/32/239_2.png) [@whatsupbros](https://forum.confluent.io/u/whatsupbros)\
**Post date:** [5 February 2021 18:45 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/confluent-control-center-features-pros-and-cons/715/1 "2021-02-05T18:45:26Z")

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Let’s discuss the [Confluent Control Center](https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/control-center/index.html) project.

The idea (was born [here](https://forum.confluent.io/t/section-to-discuss-guis-on-top-of-kafka-cluster-like-control-center/607/7)) is to share your experience so far, your thoughts, and pros and cons which you already noticed!

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**Author:** ![Ben](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/ben/32/232_2.png) [@Ben](https://forum.confluent.io/u/Ben)\
**Post date:** [7 February 2021 16:58 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/confluent-control-center-features-pros-and-cons/715/2 "2021-02-07T16:58:41Z")

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Where can we post issues with Confluent Control Center? I couldn’t find it on github (I’m guessing that’s because it’s not open source). I love the idea behind Confluent Control Center. It helps having a tool that gives a panoramic view into all the elements in Confluent platform: brokers, consumers, connect workers, ksqlDB objects, and so on. I’ve found what appears to be a UI bug with how it renders certain Avro keys in the topics → messages view. Is there an appropriate place to file bug reports?

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**Author:** ![rmoff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/rmoff/32/3_2.png) [@rmoff](https://forum.confluent.io/u/rmoff)\
**Post date:** [7 February 2021 17:30 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/confluent-control-center-features-pros-and-cons/715/3 "2021-02-07T17:30:51Z")

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Hi @Ben, this category (#tools:graphical-tools) is a suitable place to post any issues.

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**Author:** ![Ben](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/ben/32/232_2.png) [@Ben](https://forum.confluent.io/u/Ben)\
**Post date:** [7 February 2021 18:14 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/confluent-control-center-features-pros-and-cons/715/4 "2021-02-07T18:14:53Z")

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Thanks @rmoff I’ve posted it here: [Control Center - bug displaying UI for messages with compound, nested Avro key](https://forum.confluent.io/t/control-center-bug-displaying-ui-for-messages-with-compound-nested-avro-key/744)