How to connect Prometheus to OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka

2 · Red Hat · Dec. 17, 2021, 7:23 a.m.
You've always been able to view some metrics for Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka in the UI or access them via the API. We recently added a feature to OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka that exports these metrics to Prometheus, a system monitoring and alerting toolkit. Connecting these services lets you view your exported metrics alongside your other Kafka cluster metrics. This article shows you how to set up OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka to export metrics to Prometheus. The examp...