Apache Kafka Series - Kafka Monitoring?? and Operations

Description

Get hands-on with Kafka monitoring setup with Prometheus and Grafana, Kafka operations and Kafka cluster upgrades Setup in AWS.

This course helps you learn Kafka administration, Kafka monitoring, Kafka operations, and Kafka upgrades. It covers the following topics:
Administration for Apache Kafka
o Setup UI tools such as Kafka Manager, Zoo Navigator, and Kafka Monitor to get a full view of your cluster
o Understand basic operations you can perform with these tools
Monitoring for Apache Kafka
o A Kafka that is not monitored is a ticking time-bomb. o Set up proper monitoring for Kafka and Zookeeper
o Store your metrics in Prometheus and visualize them in Grafana
Operations for Apache Kafka
o Perform the most common and difficult operations in your Apache Kafka cluster
o Roll-restart your brokers in only one command
o Update Kafka configurations safely with no downtime
o Rebalance partitions and change the replication factor of your topics
o Add, replace, and remove brokers.
Upgrades for Apache Kafka
o Understand the subtlety of upgrading a Kafka cluster
o Step-by-step explanations on upgrading a cluster with no downtime All the code files are placed at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Apache-Kafka-Series---Kafka-Monitoring-and-Operations

• Learn how to perform a safe and automated roll-restart of Kafka brokers
• Update broker configurations in a safe way
• Rebalance partitions in a Kafka cluster
• Increase and decrease the replication factor of topics
• Add a broker to a Kafka cluster
• Service and replace a broker in a Kafka cluster
• Remove a broker in a Kafka cluster
• Install Command Line Interface (CLI) tools to automate workflows
• Upgrade a Kafka cluster with no downtime

Kafka administrators who want to learn how to set up monitoring, perform Kafka operations, and upgrade a Kafka cluster.

This course will teach you Apache Kafka in depth, via practical examples.

• Set up a multi-broker Kafka cluster in no time in AWS (using CloudFormation) * • Set up administration tools such as Kafka Manager, ZooNavigator, and LinkedIn's Kafka Monitor * • Set up monitoring using Grafana and Prometheus

https://github.com/packtpublishing/apache-kafka-series---kafka-monitoring-and-operations

Stéphane Maarek is a solutions architect, consultant, and software developer who has a particular interest in all things related to big data and analytics. He is also a bestseller instructor on Udemy for his courses on Apache Kafka, Apache NiFi, and AWS Lambda. He loves Apache Kafka and regularly contributes to the Apache Kafka project. Stéphane has also written a guest blog post that was featured on the Confluent website, the company behind Apache Kafka. He is also an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and has many years of experience with technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache NiFi, Apache Spark, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, Tableau, Spotfire, Docker, Ansible, and more.

1. Course Overview and Introduction

2. Kafka Quick Setup in AWS

3. Kafka Administration Setup

4. Kafka Monitoring Setup: Grafana + Prometheus

5. Kafka Operations

6. Kafka Cluster Upgrade

7. Next Steps