Kafdrop install and Monitor
There are many monitoring trools available for Kafka brokers. Ive collectiect Various monitoring options: Factor House Kpow Datadog Logit.io Kafka Lag Exporter Confluent CMAK (Cluster Manager for Apache Kafka) Kafdrop Offset Explorer Let's explore the kafdrop monitoring Prerequisites: To run the Kafdrop monitoring tool Ensure Java installed by checking java -version If you don't find java on your Ubuntu run the following : sudo apt update sudo apt install openjdk-21-jdk -y for other Linux distributions you need to use right package manger to install JDK. Download Kafdrop jar file from github : sudo mkdir kafka-monitor cd kafka-monitor curl -L -o kafdrop.jar https://github.com/obsidiandynamics/kafdrop/releases/download/4.1.0/kafdrop-4.1.0.jar The curl command ensures that Kafdrop may have any release version but the jar file renamed as `kafdrop.jar`. Now all set to go and run the Kafdrop jar file with the --kafka.brokerConnect option where you can give sing...