What is Kafka?
Apache Kafka is a popular open source platform for streaming, storing, and processing high volumes of data. In this video, we break down how Kafka works and how it’s able to provide you with a reliable, scalable, and highly performant service for managing events. We also touch on some key resources for effectively monitoring your Kafka deployments via Datadog.
Chapters:
00:00- Introduction
00:37- Kafka Architecture
01:23- Kafka Reliability
04:08- Kafka Scalability
05:10- Kafka Performance
05:35- Monitoring Kafka in Production
Introducing Kafka-Kit: Tools for Scaling Kafka:
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engine...
Lessons learned from running Kafka at Datadog:
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/kafka-...
Monitoring Kafka performance metrics:
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/monito...