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Monitor Kafka with Grafana Cloud
22 min
Milestone 1
Value of Kafka monitoring
1 min
Milestone 2
Advantages of Grafana Alloy
1 min
Milestone 3
Install Alloy
1 min
Milestone 4
Configure JMX exporter
2 min
Milestone 5
Configure Alloy for Kafka
2 min
Milestone 6
Verify metrics
2 min
Milestone 7
Install dashboards and alerts
1 min
Milestone 8
About pre-built dashboards
3 min
Milestone 9
About pre-built alerts
4 min
Milestone 10
Explore metrics
2 min
Milestone 11
Destination reached!
1 min

Install and view Kafka dashboards and alerts

The Grafana Cloud Kafka integration comes with a number of pre-built dashboards and alerts that you can use immediately. In this step of the journey, you install those dashboards and alerts.

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You aren’t limited to using the pre-built dashboards and alerts. You can create your own custom dashboards and alerts to meet your specific monitoring needs.

To install and view Kafka dashboards and alerts, complete the following steps:

  1. In Grafana Cloud, scroll down to the Install dashboards and alerts section and click Install.

    You should see the following message: Dashboards and alerts have been installed.

  2. To view the dashboards, click View Dashboards.

    A folder containing the Kafka dashboards appears.

  3. To see the installed alerts, first click the Grafana icon in the top left-corner of the screen.

    The left-side menu appears.

  4. Click Alerts & IRM > Alerting > Alert rules.

    The Alert rules page shows all active alerts. Kafka integration alerts begin with integrations-kafka.

In the next milestone, you learn about the pre-built dashboards included with the Kafka integration.

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About pre-built dashboards
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