Development UI
Topics
Inspect managed Kafka topics and read-only broker metadata.
The Topics view reads broker metadata without consuming records. It defaults to topics managed by
the current project and can show the wider broker inventory. Managed topic names link back to their
StreamBuild source definitions and landing health.
Topic inventory and source landing state are independent. A broker metadata failure does not prevent
the UI from showing retained ClickHouse rows or compiled source definitions. Browsing topics never
advances a consumer-group offset.
Use Messages when you need to inspect payloads retained in ClickHouse rather than
broker-level topic metadata.

