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March 26, 2026
Beyond JMX: Supercharging Grafana Dashboards with High-Fidelity Metrics

Move beyond raw JMX noise and unlock business-relevant observability for your Kafka environment. This guide explores how to feed high-fidelity, pre-calculated metrics, such as consumer group lag in seconds, directly from Kpow into your Grafana dashboards for proactive capacity planning and incident response.

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March 26, 2026

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March 26, 2026

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March 26, 2026
What the IBM Confluent acquisition means for Kafka users

IBM has completed its acquisition of Confluent. We examine what the deal means for teams running Kafka in production, where the real lock-in risks sit, and how to assess your exposure.

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March 26, 2026

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March 26, 2026

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March 19, 2026
Factor House expands to Europe

Factor House has officially landed in Europe. Read about our latest strategic hires and how we are empowering the next era of streaming data for enterprise engineering teams.

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March 19, 2026

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March 19, 2026

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March 12, 2026

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March 12, 2026
Self-Service Kafka Governance: Streamlining Workflows with Kpow and ServiceNow

Implement Just-in-Time Kafka access by integrating Kpow with ServiceNow. Automate approvals and temporary policy management to enhance security and developer self-service.

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March 12, 2026

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February 17, 2026
Rapid Kafka Diagnostics: A Unified Workflow for Root Cause Analysis

The Context Gap caused by fragmented tools hinders effective Kafka monitoring and troubleshooting, as it forces engineers to manually piece together logs and metrics. This guide demonstrates how to close that gap using Kpow's unified workflow to identify the stall, inspect the data, and resolve the incident in a single interface.

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February 17, 2026

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February 17, 2026

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February 6, 2026

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How NORD/LB transformed Kafka operations and cut debugging time in half

A German financial institution overcomes critical compliance gaps and operational inefficiencies to build a scalable, enterprise-grade streaming data platform.

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February 6, 2026

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February 6, 2026

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