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Apache Kafka cluster health monitoring: Kpow demo

September 16, 2026 6 min Speaker: Chad Harris, Factor House
SignalsCluster healthPartition skewAlerting

Most Kafka health issues get found the hard way: after something’s already broken and someone goes digging through metrics to figure out why. Chad Harris digs deeper into Signals in Kpow, which surfaces potential health issues, such as unbalanced brokers, partition data skew, empty or single-partition topics, and consumer group problems, before they become incidents.

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Chad Harris

Chad Harris

Solutions Architect, Factor House

Chad Harris is a Solutions Architect at Factor House, bringing 18 years of experience across software engineering, application architecture, and engineering leadership. He has deep hands-on expertise with Apache Kafka, high-volume transactional systems, and PCI-compliant architectures, most recently as an Engineering Leader at Block (formerly Square).

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