Monitoring Kafka with Burrow - Part 1 - Hortonworks

Monitoring Kafka with Burrow - Part 1 - Hortonworks

Burrow automatically monitors all consumers and every partition that they consume. It does it by consuming the special internal Kafka topic to which consumer offsets are written. Burrow then provides consumer information as a centralized service that is separate from any single consumer. Consumer status is determined by evaluating the consumer's behavior over a sliding window. For each partition, data is recorded to answer the following questions:

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