Is your Kafka a black box?
Maintaining Apache Kafka in production is hard. It requires being able to answer hundreds of different questions:
- Who are my consumers?
- What lag do they have?
- What data are my producers generating?
- How are my partitions distributed?
- And are my replicas in sync?
- …
Why do you need monitoring for Kafka?
Developers, data engineers and SREs will lose time. Debugging a data pipeline or microservice will require connecting manually onto machines and jumping between different open-source tools. Things that should take 10 seconds will end up taking hours.
This will ultimately slow down your development and your adoption of Kafka
When is the time right to have this monitoring?
Right from the beginning of your Kafka project. You must thing of having enterprise monitoring and visibility right from the beginning otherwise not only will it slow down your developers it will risk your Kafka project not being successful and all.
Would this make things better for you?

Topology

Monitoring

Investigate

Explore

Audit

Alerting
Monitor your Kafka Streams in Realtime
Explore your Kafka topics with SQL
Simplify getting data in and out of Kafka
Manage your data governance policies
Who else has this helped?
Many.
We speak to organisations every day of all sizes across Europe and it’s crazy how they all say the same things. Some clients who have benefited from solutions we work with propose include:
Generali, Zopa, CISION, Accenture, Sainsburys, Autoliv
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Dave Harper
Dave is chief of business relationships and co-founder. Worked with data technologies such as multivariate testing, personalisation and big data analytics. His aim is to do business with integrity, putting customers, and colleagues first without compromising on results. He’s based in London with his family and data driven dog called Spike.

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Guillaume is our technical officer, looks after our marketing and is our chief French-speaker. He has had a varied career from everything including webdev, to working on a support team for enterprise software, to software consulting and presales. He can often be found in parks and canals in Paris recording Youtube demos.