Strimzi Kafka

Overview

Strimzi is an open-source project that provides a Kubernetes Operator to manage Apache Kafka clusters and related components (e.g., Kafka Connect, Kafka MirrorMaker, Kafka Bridge) in a Kubernetes-native way.

Use Cases

• See statistics about Kafka KRaft and Broker.
• Inspect Consumer Groups
• See latency insights.

Overview

Kafka created by Strimzi operator exposes metrics through a Prometheus endpoint that you can scrape. We recommend to scrape and forward these metrics via an OpenTelemetry Collector. The Strimzi Kafka Exporter exposes additional Prometheus metrics.

Prometheus metrics endpoint

The Kafka metrics are exposed via Kafka broker/controller/exporter HTTP endpoints.

Collector Configuration

The following code snippet shows an OpenTelemetry Collector configuration file.

Collector Deployment

Learn how to deploy the collector within our OpenTelemetry collector integration documentation.

References

• Strimzi documentation
• OpenTelemetry Collector configuration in OTelBin