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Section 2 · Choose and set up an integration

Monitoring Apache Kafka

Estimated time: 2 min

Kafka integration

The Kafka integration monitors Apache Kafka clusters, including brokers, topics, and consumer groups. Consumer lag metrics and alerts show when consumers fall behind producers.

What it’s forMonitoring broker health, consumer lag, and message throughput
Under the hoodCollects broker and JVM metrics via a JMX exporter, plus consumer lag from a Kafka exporter

Metrics collected

The integration collects metrics across brokers, topics, and consumers:

  • Broker: JVM, requests, replication
  • Topics: Messages in/out, partitions
  • Consumer: Lag, offset, group status
  • ZooKeeper: Connections, latency (if used)

What to know

This integration offers:

  • Prebuilt dashboards, including overview, topics, and Kafka Connect. The integration reference also lists logs, Schema Registry, ZooKeeper, and ksqldb dashboards.
  • Prebuilt alerts: consumer lag, broker health
  • Partition distribution visibility
  • Setup needs JMX access to the brokers.

Set it up

Open this path in your Grafana Cloud stack for a fully interactive experience, or read through it to understand the process first.

Learning path

Monitor Kafka with Grafana Cloud

Welcome to the Kafka monitoring learning path that shows you how to use Grafana Alloy to send Kafka metrics to Grafana Cloud for comprehensive event streaming observability.

22 min
Beginner
Docs & blog posts

Open in Grafana Cloud

Complete this learning path directly in your Grafana Cloud stack with an interactive learning experience.

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