Monitoring Kafka with OpenTelemetry including client side monitoring

Monitoring Kafka with OpenTelemetry including client side monitoring

Feb 14, 2024

In this video, you will see a demo of how to monitor Kafka with OpenTelemetry. We will instrument a NodeJS application using Kafka and get client side metrics like delay between producer emitting a message to consumer receiving it via distributed tracing. We will also get Kafka server metrics like consumer lag and plot it dashboards