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Kafka Exporter

Prometheus exporter for Apache Kafka brokers and consumer lag

Monitoring & Status ★ 2.5k stars Easy setup Apache-2.0

Kafka Exporter exposes Apache Kafka broker, topic, and consumer group metrics for Prometheus, with a particular focus on consumer group lag. It is a popular lightweight alternative to JMX-based Kafka monitoring.

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Key features

  • Consumer group lag metrics
  • Topic and partition offsets
  • No JMX dependency
  • Single static binary

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Simpler than JMX monitoring
  • Focused lag visibility

Trade-offs

  • No broker JVM metrics
  • Needs Prometheus and Grafana

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