Hey Murilo, could you explain what you mean by `goka views`? If you are talking about https://github.com/lovoo/goka, they should use consumer groups as well IIUC.
Boyang On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 11:55 AM Murilo Tavares <murilo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. Looking for some insights here. > We use Kafka at a large scale, and have lots of microservices using Kafka > for all sorts of things. > Our biggest challenge nowadays is to track which topics are used and which > are not. > I have considered looking at consumer groups to identify which applications > consume from each topic, but then I realized we have lots of microservices > that do not use consumer groups (lots of goka views on top of Kafka > topics). > > Is there any architecture solution that can help track consumers of a Kafka > topic? > Thought that I could use ACL to restrict the creation of Kafka Topics and > use a gatekeeper service to centralize and log who creates the topics, but > still that does not block anyone from consuming from them. > > Any thoughts on that? > Thanks > Murilo >