Monitor Apache Kafka Clusters with Prometheus, Grafana, and Confluent

This post details the integration of Confluent Platform with Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring Kafka clusters. It explains how to export JMX data from Confluent clusters to a third-party metrics aggregation platform, enabling service correlations, consolidated dashboards, root cause analysis, and fine-grained alerts. The post provides a two-part series, with this article focusing on the initial setup and integration of Prometheus and Grafana with Confluent Platform, and a subsequent article covering client monitoring.