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Beyond JMX: supercharging Grafana dashboards
Move beyond raw JMX noise. Learn how to feed high-fidelity, pre-calculated Kafka metrics from Kpow into Grafana for proactive capacity planning and incident response.
Kafka observability with Kpow
Operating Apache Kafka at scale often leads to reactive maintenance. This article covers three gaps in context, data quality, and governance, and a strategy for operational excellence with Kpow.
Real-time audit trail for Kafka via webhooks
Operating Kafka without a transparent audit trail leaves teams blind to admin changes and vulnerable during incidents. Learn to stream Kpow's real-time audit log via webhooks into tools like Slack.
Rapid Kafka diagnostics: a unified workflow
Fragmented tools force engineers to manually piece together logs and metrics when troubleshooting Kafka. This guide shows how Kpow's unified workflow finds a stall, inspects data, and resolves it.
Integrate Kpow with StreamNative Cloud
Integrate Kpow with StreamNative Cloud in minutes. Gain unified visibility and control over your managed Kafka brokers and Schema Registry through our market-leading engineering console.
Factor House expands to Europe
Discover how Factor House's expansion into Germany brings enterprise-grade control and monitoring to European teams running Kafka and Flink.
Self-service Kafka governance with 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.
Beyond Reagent: migrating to React 19
Introducing HSX and RFX, two new open source Clojure UI libraries by Factor House. They are drop-in replacements for Reagent and Re-Frame, enabling migration to React 19.
Improvements to Data Inspect in Kpow 94.3
Kpow's 94.3 release lets you query topics using plain English with AI-powered filtering, automatically decode any message format, and use new enhancements to the kJQ language.