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Stream Governance is a suite of fully managed tools that help you ensure data quality, discover data, and securely share data streams. It includes components like Schema Registry for data contracts, Stream Catalog for data discovery, and Stream Lineage for visualizing data flows.

As Kafka usage scales, managing thousands of topics and ensuring data quality becomes a major challenge. Governance provides the necessary guardrails to prevent data chaos, ensuring that the data flowing through Kafka is trustworthy, discoverable, and secure. This makes it possible to democratize data access safely.

While open source provides basic components like Schema Registry, Confluent offers a complete, fully managed, and integrated suite. Stream Governance combines data quality, catalog, and lineage into a single solution that is deeply integrated with the Confluent Cloud platform, including advanced features like a Data Portal, graphical lineage, and enterprise-grade SLAs.

Yes. Confluent Schema Registry supports Avro, Protobuf, and JSON Schema, giving you the flexibility to use the data formats that best suit your needs.

Yes, Confluent Stream Governance provides robust support for industry-standard data serialization formats through its integrated Schema Registry.

Schema Registry centrally stores and manages schemas for your Kafka topics, supporting the following formats: Apache Avro, Protobuf, JSON Schema.

This ensures that all data produced to a Kafka topic adheres to a predefined structure. When a producer sends a message, it serializes the data according to the registered schema, which typically converts it into a compact binary format and embeds a unique schema ID. When a consumer reads the message, it uses that ID to retrieve the correct schema from the registry and accurately deserialize the data back into a structured format. This process not only enforces data quality and consistency but also enables safe schema evolution over time.

The complete Stream Governance suite, including the Data Portal and interactive Stream Lineage, is exclusive to Confluent Cloud. However, core components like Schema Registry are available as part of the self-managed Confluent Platform.

Yes. Stream Governance is suitable for regulated industries and provides the tools you need to ensure data security and compliance with industry and regional regulations. Its Stream Lineage features help with audits, allowing you to use schema enforcement and data quality rules to ensure data integrity. Across the fully managed data streaming platform, Confluent Cloud also holds numerous industry certifications like PCI, HIPAA, and SOC 2.

You can get started with Stream Governance by signing up for a free trial of Confluent Cloud. New users receive $400 in cloud credit to apply to any of the data streaming, integration, governance, and stream processing capabilities on the data streaming platform, allowing you try Stream Governance features firsthand.

We also recommended exploring key Stream Governance concepts in Confluent documentation, as well as following the Confluent Cloud Quick Start, which takes you through how to deploy your first cluster, product and consume messages, and inspect them with Stream Lineage.