Build Observability Pipelines Using Confluent and AppDynamics

This post details the technical implementation of an observability pipeline using Kafka Connect to ingest Confluent Cloud metrics and push them to AppDynamics. It covers the architecture of Kafka Connect, the anatomy of a custom Java source connector (MetricsAPISourceConnector), its configuration (MetricsAPISourceConnectorConfig, MetricsAPISourceTask), and the use of Single Message Transformations (SMT) for the AppDynamics sink connector. It also provides instructions for installing and configuring the connectors and demonstrates how to set up monitoring dashboards in AppDynamics.