Apache Kafka monitoring

Apache Kafka Monitoring with Xitoring

Apache Kafka powers real-time data pipelines and streaming applications at scale. Ensuring its reliability requires constant visibility into cluster health, throughput, and latency. Xitoring’s Kafka monitoring integration provides the insights you need to maintain optimal performance across your event-driven architecture.

Why Kafka Monitoring Is Critical

  • Performance Optimization

Track message throughput, consumer lag, and broker load to identify bottlenecks. Monitoring helps optimize partition distribution, replication, and resource allocation for peak efficiency.

  • Preventing Data Pipeline Disruptions

Kafka outages can cascade across dependent systems. Monitoring detects broker failures, disk saturation, and network issues before they impact producers or consumers.

  • Resource Efficiency

Kafka’s performance depends on disk I/O, memory, and CPU. Monitoring ensures brokers operate within capacity, preventing garbage collection spikes or thread exhaustion.

  • Scalability Assurance

Cluster growth requires careful planning. Metrics on topic volume, partition counts, and replication latency inform scaling decisions—whether adding brokers or rebalancing partitions.

  • End-to-End Visibility

Track producer/consumer activity across topics to ensure message delivery guarantees (at-least-once, exactly-once) are maintained.

  • Security & Compliance

Monitor authentication attempts, unauthorized topic access, and encryption status to protect sensitive data streams.

Xitoring’s Kafka Monitoring Capabilities

  • Cluster Health Dashboard – Real-time visibility into broker status, controller elections, and under-replicated partitions

  • Throughput & Latency Metrics – Track messages/second, consumer lag, and end-to-end delivery times

  • Resource Monitoring – JVM performance, disk utilization, and network throughput per broker

  • Custom Alerting – Notifications for consumer group lag spikes, offline partitions, or broker failures

  • Topic-Level Insights – Message volume, partition distribution, and retention policy tracking

  • Security Auditing – Failed authentication attempts and ACL permission changes

  • Historical Trend Analysis – Capacity planning using long-term performance patterns

Xitoring eliminates blind spots in your Kafka infrastructure, providing the operational intelligence needed to maintain high-availability data pipelines.

How to start monitoring your Kafka server?

  • 1

    Install Xitogent

    Easily run one command and install Xitogent on your Linux or Windows server

  • 2

    Enable Integration

    Now run `xitogent integrate` on your server and select Kafka, it will show you the process of the installation.

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  • 3

    Configure Triggers

    You can easily configure several triggers including CPU and Memory Usage and alerts and receive them in your favorite notification channel.

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FAQ

How much does it cost for each Kafka Server?

Kafka monitoring is included at no cost for all servers. on the Flexible plan, each server costs $5.00/mo and you can save much more on combo plans (up to 50%)

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How long does it take to setup Kafka monitoring?

If you have Xitogent running on your server on average it would take five minutes to configure and make everything running!

More technical details can be found here: How to monitor Kafka on Xitoring

How to monitor Kafka server for free?

Xitoring offers 30 days trial to try Kafka monitoring. Basic Server metrics and uptime monitoring are always free.

What kind of alerts do I get for Kafka monitoring?

There are many options to configure your customized trigger and alerts, including total fetch reauests, bytes in, bytes out and etc.

What graphs do you provide for Kafka monitoring?

We provide graphs tons of graphs about your expires, topics bytes, request handler, etc.

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