Monitoring Apache Kafka with Gwen Shapira

Join us for an EVENING Apache Kafka meetup on February 20th from 6:00pm in 1051 E. Hillsdale Blvd., Foster City. The agenda and speaker information can be found below. See you there!

PS: As we have 2 events the same day (AM and PM) please make sure you RSVP to the one(s) you can attend. Thanks!

Parking Instructions:The entrance to the parking garage is located to the rear building off Shell Blvd. You may park in any unreserved parking stall on all levels of the garage as long as it is not marked as “Retail Parking”. If you park on second or third level, please take the stairs or elevator down to the lobby.

-----

Agenda:
6:00pm: Doors open
6:00pm - 6:15pm: Networking, Pizza and Drinks
6:15pm - 7:15pm: Monitoring Apache Kafka, Gwen Shapira, Confluent
7:00pm - 7:45pm: Additional Q&A and Networking

-----

Speaker:
Gwen Shapira

Bio:
Gwen Shapira is a principal data architect at Confluent, where she helps customers achieve success with their Apache Kafka implementation. She has 15 years of experience working with code and customers to build scalable data architectures, integrating relational and big data technologies. Gwen currently specializes in building real-time reliable data-processing pipelines using Apache Kafka. Gwen is an Oracle Ace Director, the coauthor of Hadoop Application Architectures, and a frequent presenter at industry conferences. She is also a committer on Apache Kafka and Apache Sqoop. When Gwen isn’t coding or building data pipelines, you can find her pedaling her bike, exploring the roads and trails of California and beyond.

Title:
Monitoring Apache Kafka

Abstract:
When you are running systems in production, clearly you want to make sure they are up and running at all times. But in a distributed system such as Apache Kafka… what does “up and running” even mean?

Experienced Apache Kafka users know what is important to monitor, which alerts are critical and how to respond to them. They don’t just collect metrics - they go the extra mile and use additional tools to validate availability and performance on both the Kafka cluster and their entire data pipelines.

In this presentation we’ll discuss best practices of monitoring Apache Kafka. We’ll look at which metrics are critical to alert on, which are useful in troubleshooting and what may actually misleading. We’ll review a few “worst practices” - common mistakes that you should avoid. We’ll then look at what metrics don’t tell you - and how to cover those essential gaps.

-----

Special thanks to GuideWire (https://www.guidewire.com/) who are hosting us for this event.

Don't forget to join our Community Slack Team (https://launchpass.com/confluentcommunity) !

If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! community@confluent.io

NOTE: We are unable to cater for any attendees under the age of 18. Please do not sign up for this event if you are under 18.