Video description
This course helps you learn Kafka administration, Kafka monitoring, Kafka operations, and Kafka upgrades. It covers the following topics:
Administration for Apache Kafka
o Setup UI tools such as Kafka Manager, Zoo Navigator, and Kafka Monitor to get a full view of your cluster
o Understand basic operations you can perform with these tools
Monitoring for Apache Kafka
o A Kafka that is not monitored is a ticking time-bomb.
o Set up proper monitoring for Kafka and Zookeeper
o Store your metrics in Prometheus and visualize them in Grafana
Operations for Apache Kafka
o Perform the most common and difficult operations in your Apache Kafka cluster
o Roll-restart your brokers in only one command
o Update Kafka configurations safely with no downtime
o Rebalance partitions and change the replication factor of your topics
o Add, replace, and remove brokers.
Upgrades for Apache Kafka
o Understand the subtlety of upgrading a Kafka cluster
o Step-by-step explanations on upgrading a cluster with no downtime
What You Will Learn
- Learn how to perform a safe and automated roll-restart of Kafka brokers
- Update broker configurations in a safe way
- Rebalance partitions in a Kafka cluster
- Increase and decrease the replication factor of topics
- Add a broker to a Kafka cluster
- Service and replace a broker in a Kafka cluster
- Remove a broker in a Kafka cluster
- Install Command Line Interface (CLI) tools to automate workflows
- Upgrade a Kafka cluster with no downtime
Audience
Kafka administrators who want to learn how to set up monitoring, perform Kafka operations, and upgrade a Kafka cluster.
About The Author
Stéphane Maarek: Stéphane Maarek is a solutions architect, consultant, and software developer who has a particular interest in all things related to big data and analytics. He is also a bestseller instructor on Udemy for his courses on Apache Kafka, Apache NiFi, and AWS Lambda. He loves Apache Kafka and regularly contributes to the Apache Kafka project.
Stéphane has also written a guest blog post that was featured on the Confluent website, the company behind Apache Kafka. He is also an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and has many years of experience with technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache NiFi, Apache Spark, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, Tableau, Spotfire, Docker, Ansible, and more.
Table of contents
- Chapter 1 : Course Overview and Introduction
- Chapter 2 : Kafka Quick Setup in AWS
- Chapter 3 : Kafka Administration Setup
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Chapter 4 : Kafka Monitoring Setup: Grafana + Prometheus
- Overview of Monitoring
- [Hands-On] Setting up Prometheus + Kafka Broker 1
- [Solution] Broker 2 3 Prometheus Setup
- [Solution] Zookeeper Prometheus Setup
- [Hands-On] Setup Grafana on Administration Server
- [Hands-On] Setup Kafka Dashboard on Grafana
- Important Metrics to monitor
- [Hands-On] Adding Graphs to Grafana
- [Solution] Adding more graphs to Grafana
- [Hands-On] Observing Grafana when we kill a broker
- Considerations to make the setup production-ready
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Chapter 5 : Kafka Operations
- [Hands-On] Install Jolokia Agent on Broker 1
- [[Solution] Install Jolokia on Broker 2 3
- [Hands-On] Install Rolling Restart Script
- [Hands-On] Run Roll Restart Script
- [Hands-On] Updating Configurations 1st method (rolling restart)
- [Hands-On] Updating Configurations 2nd method (kafka-configs command)
- [Hands-On] Rebalancing Partitions using plain commands and JSON
- [Hands-On] Rebalancing Partitions using Kafka Manager
- [Hands-On] Rebalancing Partitions using LinkedIn tools
- [Hands-On] Increasing Replication Factor using plain commands and JSON
- [Hands-On] Increasing Replication Factor using LinkedIn tools
- [Hands-On] Adding Broker 4 using CloudFormation
- [Solution] Moving partitions over to Broker 4 using the CLI tools
- [Hands-On] Replacing a Broker keeping EBS Volume
- [Hands-On] Replacing a Broker losing an EBS Volume
- Removing a Broker Overview
- [Solution] Remove Broker 4
- Chapter 6 : Kafka Cluster Upgrade
- Chapter 7 : Next Steps
Product information
- Title: Apache Kafka Series - Kafka Monitoring and Operations
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2018
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781838558765
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