Kafka Monitoring & Observability

Expert guidance for implementing comprehensive monitoring and observability for Apache Kafka using Prometheus and Grafana.

When to Use This Skill

I activate when you need help with:

• Monitoring setup: "Set up Kafka monitoring", "configure Prometheus for Kafka", "Grafana dashboards for Kafka"
• Metrics collection: "Kafka JMX metrics", "export Kafka metrics to Prometheus"
• Alerting: "Kafka alerting rules", "alert on under-replicated partitions", "critical Kafka metrics"
• Troubleshooting: "Monitor Kafka performance", "track consumer lag", "broker health monitoring"

What I Know

Available Monitoring Components

This plugin provides a complete monitoring stack: