Unlocking Observability in Apache Kafka®-Based Systems with OpenTelemetry

Hello Everyone!
We are happy to announce our next meetup, where we will learn about Observability utilizing the widely adopted OpenTelemetry to monitor Kafka-based systems!

Topic
Distributed tracing is essential for tracking requests across microservices. But when it comes to Kafka’s decoupled producers, consumers, and asynchronous processes, tracing a transaction from start to finish isn’t always straightforward.

In this talk, Harry Kimpel (https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrykimpel/) will join us all the way from Munich (!!) to walk us through how to monitor Kafka-based applications using distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry. By leveraging tools like Jaeger and New Relic, we’ll uncover how to gain a full view of your microservices, even in the face of Apache Kafka’s asynchronous nature.

Join us for a live demo with a simple Java Spring-Boot app, where we’ll walk through both automatic and manual instrumentation to capture rich telemetry. We’ll also touch on infrastructure-level observability, pulling metrics and traces from Apache Kafka brokers and Apache Flink.

Ready to dive deep into boosting your system’s observability? Let’s make sure you can track and analyze every transaction, no matter how complex!

Agenda
7:00 - 7:20 Arrival / Networking
7:20 - 7:30 Meetup Intro
7:30 - 8:30 Unlocking Observability in Apache Kafka®-Based Systems with OpenTelemetry
8:30 - 9:00 Pizza & Snacks by Confluent

Confluent will be sponsoring our pizzas for the event! Confluent proudly supports the community around the world that focuses on streaming platforms, real-time data streams, Apache Kafka®, Apache Flink®, and its ecosystems. There are many ways to get involved in the Community on Confluent Developer (https://developer.confluent.io/community/), where you can also find lots of training resources!

Gifts
Make sure you RSVP and join the event, to get a chance to win a JetBrains 100% free license (for any product), a Software Engineering book from Oreilly and to collect swag and stickers!

Also, note that, as our guest speaker, Harry Kimpel, will come from southern Munich (Germany) to Thessaloniki for our event, the talk will be delivered in English. Huge thanks to Confluent's Community Program for making this happen!

As always, the event is free of charge. Just bring your best mood and enjoy 🙂

See you all there!
Lefteris, Dimitris & Giorgos