/KafkaMirror

- KafkaMirror Beta Launch - KafkaMirror is a monitoring application providing live display of data to help Kafka engineers make informed decisions about its traffic and health.

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

KafkaMirror

Kafka monitoring tool

Table of Contents

Overview

Demo

Quick Start

Viewing your metrics

Open-Source Kafka simulator tool

Overview

  • Monitor your Kafka application in real-time
  • Track throughput, events per second
  • Easily integrate KafkaMirror to your existing application
  • Compatible with Kafka applications utilizing KafkaJS

KafkaMirror allows for easy, highly accurate monitoring of your kafka cluster in real-time. By directly accessing the log data for your kafka cluster, KafkaMirror delivers precise, reliable feedback which can be used to improve system health and identify irregularities.

Demo

kafka-mirror-events kafka-mirror-throughput

Quick Start

A few simple steps to initialize KafkaMirror:

  1. npm install kafka-mirror-connect
  2. In the file where you initialize your KafkaJS to connect with your Kafka Cluster, require in kafka-mirror connect.
const KafkaMirror = require("kafka-mirror-connect");
  1. Replace "new Kafka" with a call to KafkaMirror.
const kafka = KafkaMirror({
   clientId,
   brokers: ["localhost:9092"],
});

Viewing your metrics

The KafkaMirror GUI can be used to view your metrics.

  1. Clone this repo (https://github.com/oslabs-beta/KafkaMirror.git)
  2. cd into KafkaMirror
  3. Start the application with npm start
  4. Navigate to localhost:3000
  5. Within the GUI, navigate to the setting page and enter the location (e.g. port 9092) of your Kafka cluster.

Open source Kafka simulator

The KafkaMirror GUI can be used to view your metrics.

Authors

KafkaMirror Engineers:
Joe Kinney
Jonah Stewart
Keon Kim
Mark Miller
Tobi-wan Rodriguez