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Monitoring Apache Kafka with Prometheus and Grafana: Consumer Lag, Throughput, and Topic Health in Production
A comparison of Apache Kafka monitoring approaches (AKHQ, Burrow, JMX Exporter) and a hands-on deployment guide using JMX Exporter + kafka-exporter + Prometheus + Grafana to track consumer lag, broker throughput, and topic health. Includes production-ready PromQL queries and alert rules.