Apache Kafka·Apache Kafka essentials

Operations

Monitor lag, disk, and broker health.

Intermediate 10 min read Lesson 5 of 150 Challenge included
What you will be able to do
  • Watch consumer lag.
  • Plan partitions before scaling.
  • Keep retention and disk in balance.

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Monitor lag, disk, and broker health.

  • Watch consumer lag.
  • Plan partitions before scaling.
  • Keep retention and disk in balance.
terminalTerminal
kafka-consumer-groups.sh --describe --group app --bootstrap-server localhost:9092
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