News, guides, and engineering deep dives.
News, guides, and engineering deep dives on Kafka, Flink, Iceberg, and real-time data.
Best Kafka monitoring tools for 2026
Compare 12 Kafka monitoring tools for 2026, from enterprise-grade Kpow to open-source AKHQ and Prometheus. Covers deployment, pricing, and key trade-offs.
Kafka broker monitoring
How to monitor Kafka brokers: key JMX metrics, alerting thresholds, process monitoring scripts, and common issues with step-by-step diagnosis.
Kafka cluster monitoring
What to monitor at the Kafka cluster level: key JMX metrics, multi-broker collection, alerting thresholds, capacity signals, and a health check script.
Kafka consumer monitoring and performance tuning
Learn which Kafka consumer metrics matter most, how to interpret them, and which configuration changes will improve performance and reduce lag.
Kafka monitoring: a complete guide for platform engineers
A practical guide to Kafka monitoring for platform engineers: the metrics that matter, alert thresholds, JVM tuning, consumer lag, and KRaft changes.
A detailed guide to Kafka producer monitoring
A practical guide to Kafka producer metrics, JMX collection, alerting thresholds, and diagnostic scripts for Java-based Kafka producers.
How Adidas uses Apache Kafka in production
A deep-dive into Adidas's Kafka architecture — covering observability at 100 billion messages per day, self-service topic provisioning, and custom GoLang tooling.
How Afterpay uses Apache Kafka in production
A deep-dive into Afterpay's Kafka architecture — covering PCI-compliant payment streaming, two-hop AWS PrivateLink isolation, and the Project Teleport cross-region data pipeline.
How Apple uses Apache Kafka in production
A deep-dive into Apple's Kafka architecture — covering their managed internal platform, Strimzi on EKS, tiered storage, zero-data-movement balancing, and mTLS migration.