Microservice architecture relies heavily on message brokers like Kafka, making consumer monitoring essential for business sustainability. This post discusses how Trendyol monitors Kafka consumers using Prometheus and handles alerts through Alert Manager. It covers key issues like lag, disconnected consumers, chronic rebalancing, skewed partitions, idle consumers, and consumer processing metrics, providing detailed approaches and PromQL expressions to detect and address these problems.
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Kafka Consumer Monitoring TipsFirst things first, the lagsDisconnected consumersChronicle rebalancingSkewed partitionsIdle consumerConsumer processing metricsConclusionAbout UsSort: