Kafka in Action

9 Management: Tools and logging

This chapters covers

• Scripting administration client options
• Examining REST APIs, tools, and utilities
• Managing Kafka and ZooKeeper logs
• Finding JMX metrics
• Advertised listeners and clients
• Tracing using interceptors with headers

We have spent some time discussing brokers in depth in chapter 6 and client concerns throughout the earlier chapters. We saw some development practices that can be applied in most situations, but there will always be environments where special handling is required. The best way to keep a cluster moving along is to understand the data that is flowing through it and to monitor that activity at run time. Although operating Apache Kafka may not be the same as writing and running Java applications ...