Monitoring Apache Kafka with Confluent Control Center | Confluent

This post introduces Confluent Control Center as a Kafka-specific monitoring solution, highlighting its features for system health, end-to-end stream monitoring, and alerting. It details how Control Center addresses key operational questions like broker status, application data reception, and performance bottlenecks. The post also outlines a demo scenario involving a streaming ETL pipeline using Kafka Connect, KSQL, and Elasticsearch, demonstrating Control Center's capabilities in monitoring consumer rebalances, slow consumers, and failed brokers.