Kafka integration

The Kafka integration provides streaming platform monitoring for Apache Kafka clusters, including brokers, topics, and consumer groups. Kafka has many moving parts, but consumer lag is the metric that matters most, since growing lag means consumers are falling behind producers.

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: overview, topics, Kafka Connect
• Prebuilt alerts: consumer lag, broker health
• Partition distribution visibility
• Watch cardinality, since thousands of topics and consumer groups generate many time series.

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.

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