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

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");

3. 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

• https://github.com/oslabs-beta/kafka-simulator
  • preconfigured to work with KafkaMirror

The KafkaMirror GUI can be used to view your metrics.

Authors

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