Category: monitoring
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Top 10 Kafka Monitoring Tools
Monitoring your Apache Kafka cluster is essential for maintaining its health, performance, and reliability. The right tools provide crucial insights into brokers, topics, partitions, consumer groups, and overall system behavior. Here are 10 top Kafka monitoring tools to consider for your deployment: 1. Prometheus with Grafana Description: Prometheus, an open-source monitoring system, excels at collecting… Read more
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Monitoring Apache Kafka infrastructure using New Relic
One can effectively monitor Apache Kafka infrastructure using New Relic through several methods: 1. Kafka On-Host Integration (Recommended for most self-managed Kafka deployments): 2. Java Agent (for monitoring Java-based Producers and Consumers): 3. OpenTelemetry (for a vendor-agnostic approach): 4. Kafka Connect New Relic Connector (for sending data from Kafka Connect to New Relic): Choosing the… Read more
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Monitoring Apache Kafka using the ELK stack
One can effectively monitor Apache Kafka infrastructure using the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana). Here’s a breakdown of how to achieve this: 1. Data Collection: You have a few primary ways to get Kafka-related data into your ELK stack: 2. Data Processing (Logstash – Optional but Powerful): 3. Data Storage (Elasticsearch): 4. Data Visualization and… Read more
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Kafka Monitoring Tools
Lets look at various tools to monitor your Apache Kafka deployments. Here’s a breakdown of some popular options, including both open-source and commercial solutions: Key Metrics to Monitor: Before diving into specific tools, it’s important to understand what metrics are crucial for Kafka monitoring: Open-Source Kafka Monitoring Tools: Commercial Kafka Monitoring Tools: Choosing the Right… Read more