I plan to run a few tests to determine if Kafka is suitable for a certain usecase I have in mind.

My idea is to run a local cluster of Kafka servers (either VMs or containers), produce/consume a series of messages, observe a bunch of metrics (Prometheus & Grafana) and custom business logic outcomes.

What are some good tools to record and visualise the internals of Kafka cluster?

I’m looking for things like consumer lag, topic replication, possibly tracing messages, …

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      1 year ago

      Thanks 🙏 That’s what I’ve gathered so far too. I will keep this post, well, posted in case I stumble upon something else.