Here is a list of best practices to optimize your experience with Kafka:
- Enable detailed logs for Kerberos: Troubleshooting Kerberos issues can be a nightmare for technical stakeholders. Sometimes it is difficult to understand why Kerberos authentication is not working. It also happens that errors are not that very informative and you get the root cause by looking at the actual authentication flows. Hence, you need to have a proper debugging set for Kerberos. In Kafka or, as a matter of fact, in any JAVA Kerberos-enabled application, you can set the Kerberos debug level using the following property:
sun.security.krb5.debug=true
- Integrate with Enterprise Identity Server: You should always integrate your Kerberos authentication with Enterprise Identity Servers. It has many benefits. You do not have to manage more than one version of users. Any user deletion activity...
