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Datadog and GCP are “friends” up to a point
Hi, Since in the last period I preferred to publish more on Medium, let me give you the link to the latest article. There is an interesting case in which the combination of automation, Goggle Cloud Platform and Datadog didn’t go as we expected. https://medium.com/metrosystemsro/puppet-datadog-google-cloud-platform-recipe-for-a-small-outage-310166e551f1 Hope you enjoy! I will get back with more also…
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Fact for kafka_consumer hash…or kind of
Hi, There is a late requirement that we activate the kafka_consumer functionality of Datadog. Unfortunately this is a challenge if you don’t have a fixed number of consumer groups and topics (on one client we had a couple of hundreds consumer groups) Here is how it should look in the example file So, if you…
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Adding custom kafka check consumer.lag to datadog from JMX
Hi, We had the necessity to add the consumer.lag check to datadog. Since we did not have access to the kafka.consumer domain which from what i believe it’s on the client side i decided to connect to the kafka node using JMX (so JConsole was the tool). At MBeans tab you will gladly see that…
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Integrate Kafka with Datadog monitoring using puppet
Hi, Since i was in debt with an article on how to integate Kafka monitoring using Datadog, let me tell you a couple of things about this topic. First of all, we are taking the same config of Kafka with Jolokia that was describe in following article. From the install of the brokers on our…
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Monitoring Kafka with DataDog
Hi, A very interesting series of articles that should be checked regarding one option of Kafka monitoring with Datadog : https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/monitoring-kafka-performance-metrics/. I will have in the near future a task regarding this, will post the outcome when it’s done. P.S: It was done and you can find the implementation here : Integrate Kafka with Datadog…