Not that I have anything against paying for monitoring, or against Confluent, but you will need your consumers to be using kafka 1.10 is you want to make most out of the confluent solution. We currently are using zabbix, it's free, and it has complete functionality in one product. It does can be a but verbose, and the graphs don't look very fancy.
On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 1:16 PM Michael Noll <mich...@confluent.io> wrote: > Hafsa, > > since you specifically asked about non-free Kafka monitoring options as > well: As of version 3.0.0, the Confluent Platform provides a commercial > monitoring tool for Kafka called Confluent Control Center. (Disclaimer: I > work for Confluent.) > > Quoting from the product page at > http://www.confluent.io/product/control-center: > > "Know where your messages are at every step between source and destination. > Identify slow brokers, delivery failures, and sleuth the truth out of > unexpected latency in your network. Confluent Control Center delivers > end-to-end stream monitoring. Unlike other monitoring tools, this one is > purpose-built for your Kafka environment. Instead of identifying the > throughput in your data center or other “clocks and cables” types of > monitors, it tracks messages." > > Best wishes, > Michael > > > > > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Hafsa Asif <hafsa.a...@matchinguu.com> > wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > What is the best monitoring tool for Kafka in production, preferable free > > tool? If there is no free tool, then please mention non-free efficient > > monitoring tools also. > > > > We are feeling so much problem without monitoring tool. Sometimes brokers > > goes down or consumer is not working, we are not informed. > > > > Best Regards, > > Hafsa > > >
