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title: Introduction to Queues and Streams monitoring
source: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/message-queues-streaming/introduction
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New Relic Queues and Streams offers a comprehensive solution for monitoring your message queues and streaming data, providing detailed insights into potential issues such as failures, bottlenecks, and throttling.
This solution delivers comprehensive metrics for clusters, partitions, brokers, and topics, enabling proactive management of your message queues and streams ecosystem.

![Message-queues-and-streaming-monitoring](https://docs.newrelic.com/images/kafka-monitoring.webp "Message-queues-and-streaming-monitoring")

## Getting started with Queues and streams monitoring

To begin using New Relic's Queues and Streams, you must first integrate New Relic with your message and queues ecosystem.

Currently, the following integrations are available:

-   [Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/message-queues-streaming/installation/aws-managed-kafka-msk-integration)
-   [Confluent Cloud integration](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/message-queues-streaming/installation/confluent-cloud-integration)

## What's next

[Data and UI](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/message-queues-streaming/ui-data/understand-ui)

Learn how to use New Relic to monitor your message queues and streams clusters