If you have properly configured the Kafka cluster and it is functioning well, it can handle a significant amount of data. If you have Kafka as a centralized messaging system in your data pipeline and many applications are dependent on it, any cluster disaster or bottleneck in the Kafka cluster may affect the performance of all application dependent on Kafka. Hence, it is important to have a proper alerting and monitor system in place that gives us important information about the health of the Kafka cluster.
Let's discuss some advantages of monitoring and alerting:
- Avoid data loss: Sometimes it may happen that topic partitions are under replicated, meaning they have fewer number of replicas available in the cluster. If there are more such partitions, the risk of losing data for partition increases. A proper triggering system may help us avoid such...
