Monitoring Kafka

Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform. It is fast. It can handle billions of transactions a day. It is distributed and horizontally scalable. You can have 1 to hundreds of Kafka Broker nodes in you cluster. In such distributed environment, to be aware of health of your cluster and to be able to reacts quickly on outages is really important. That's where monitoring comes in. In this presentation we will go through most important parts when it comes to monitoring Apache Kafka systems.