About

• Author: Guilhem Marchand
• First release published in October 2018
• Purposes:

The ITSI module for Apache Kafka end to end monitoring leverages the best components to provide a key layer monitoring for your Kafka infrastructure :

• Telegraf from Influxdata (https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf)
• Jolokia for the remote JMX collection over http (https://jolokia.org)
• Telegraf Jolokia2 input plugin (https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/jolokia2)
• Telegraf Zookeeper input plugin (https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/zookeeper)
• LinkedIn Kafka monitor to provide end to end monitoring (https://github.com/linkedin/kafka-monitor)
• Kafka Consumers lag monitoring with Burrow (https://github.com/linkedin/Burrow)

The ITSI module provides a native and builtin integration with Splunk and ITSI:

• Builtin entities discovery for Zookeeper servers, Kafka brokers, Kafka connect nodes, Kafka connect source and sink tasks, Kafka-monitor, Kafka topics, Kafka Consumers, Confluent schema-registry/ksql-servers/kafka-rest
• Services templates and KPI base searches for Zookeeper, Kafka brokers, Kafka connect and source/sink tasks, Kafka LinkedIn monitor, Kafka topics, Kafka Consumers Lag monitoring, Confluent schema-registry
• Rich entity health views to manage Operating System metrics ingested in the Splunk metric store