🚀 Monitoring Kafka Streaming Like a Pro Prometheus & Grafana | (Strimzi) Kafka

In our previous video, we built a real-time data streaming system using Strimzi Kafka on Kubernetes, Kafka Connect, and PostgreSQL. We demonstrated how any change in the source PostgreSQL database was streamed to Kafka topics in real-time using the Kafka Connect cluster. 👉 In this video, we take it a step further and set up production-grade monitoring for the system using Prometheus and Grafana. Monitoring is crucial for understanding system behavior, ensuring reliability, and detecting flaws before they impact production. You’ll learn: ✅ How to monitor Kafka (Strimzi) on Kubernetes ✅ How to set up Prometheus for metrics scraping ✅ How to visualize real-time metrics in Grafana ✅ How to track Kafka connectors and PostgreSQL data flow 🧪 Hands-On Lab Included Everything shown in the video is available in a public GitHub repository — so you can replicate the setup, experiment, and learn by doing. 🔗 GitHub Repository (Lab Setup): 👉 https://github.com/rafimojabi/devopszen/lab-kafka-connect 📌 Technologies Used: Apache Kafka (Strimzi Operator) Kafka Connect PostgreSQL Prometheus Grafana Kubernetes 👨‍💻 Learn by doing for DevOps Engineers, Data Engineers, SREs, and anyone working with real-time data systems. 👍 Like | 💬 Comment | 🔔 Subscribe for more hands-on labs and real-world system designs! #Kafka #Strimzi #Prometheus #Grafana #PostgreSQL #Kubernetes #Monitoring #KafkaConnect #DataEngineering #DevOps #RealTimeData #OpenSource #Observability