Operations

Operational guidance for running, monitoring, and managing Kafka clusters.

Common Kafka cluster administration tasks and command-line tools.

Kafka deployment patterns for multiple datacenters.

Kafka geo-replication and cross-cluster data mirroring with MirrorMaker.

Kafka multi-tenant cluster planning and operational practices.

Java version support and runtime recommendations for Kafka.

Kafka hardware, operating system, disk, and filesystem recommendations.

Kafka metrics and JMX monitoring for brokers, clients, and components.

Kafka KRaft configuration, upgrades, provisioning, and quorum management.

Kafka tiered storage configuration, quick start, and operational limits.

Kafka consumer rebalance protocol behavior, migration paths, and limitations.

Kafka transaction protocol overview, version upgrades and downgrades, and performance characteristics.

Kafka Eligible Leader Replicas behavior, upgrades, and tooling.