From the course: Troubleshooting and Debugging Kafka
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Configuring alerts - Kafka Tutorial
From the course: Troubleshooting and Debugging Kafka
Configuring alerts
All of the troubleshooting and debugging of brokers, consumers, topics, partitions, replicas that we've done so far, we've done using the Confluent Control Center, but you're hardly going to be sitting around and watching the Control Center for your cluster to become unhealthy and for you to debug. What you really need is an alerting mechanism. And that's what we'll see in this demo. I have a healthy cluster at this point in time with four running brokers. Let's click through and take a look at the cluster. Everything looks good. There's nothing really wrong so far, but I do want to be intimated when something is wrong, and you can do this by configuring alerts. Click on the little bell icon on the top right of your screen. This is where you can get a history of all of the alerts that have been fired. We haven't configured any triggers, that's why we have no alerts. If you click on the triggers tab, well, it's completely empty because we haven't added any yet. Actions are actions that…
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