Monitoring, Streams, and Connectors

Monitoring, Streams, and Connectors

This course is part of Apache Kafka Specialization

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2 modules

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4 hours to complete

3 weeks at 1 hour a week

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2 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

4 hours to complete

3 weeks at 1 hour a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Monitor brokers, producers, and consumer lag in your Kafka setup
Build real-time apps with Kafka Streams using tasks and stateful processing
Connect Kafka to other tools with REST-based connectors
Use Schema Registry and monitor clusters for smooth operations

Skills you'll gain

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Assessments

12 assignments

Taught in English

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There are 2 modules in this course

Want to be sure your Kafka pipelines are running at top performance?

This Kafka Monitoring, Streams, and Connectors course teaches you how to design, monitor, and manage real-time data systems with precision. The course is designed for learners with Kafka and Java/Scala expertise. It covers broker, producer, and consumer metrics, latency monitoring, quota enforcement, and alarm configuration using JMX and Prometheus. You'll learn about Kafka Streams' architecture, including stateful and stateless transformations, K-Stream/K-Table joins, windowing, and exactly-once semantics. You will also learn how to deploy Kafka Connect, configure source/sink connectors, interact with single message transformations (SMTs), and manage connectors using the Kafka Connect REST API. This course teaches stream monitoring and integration from start to finish with demos, videos, readings, and evaluations. By the end of this course, you'll be able to create and monitor high-throughput Kafka pipelines. Enroll now to gain real-time data expertise.

This module covers the fundamentals of Kafka monitoring and Kafka schema registry. At the end of this, learners will be able to set up monitoring solutions for Kafka clusters and track component health efficiently.

What's included

16 videos1 reading7 assignments

16 videosTotal 71 minutes

Monitoring and Its Importance1 minutePreview module
Server or Infrastructure Monitoring and Application Monitor2 minutes
Kafka Monitoring 3 minutes
Kafka Broker Metrics - Under Replicated Partitions6 minutes
Kafka Broker Metrics - Others8 minutes
Topic and Partition Specific Metrics1 minute
Logging and Client Monitoring2 minutes
Producer and Consumer Metrics6 minutes
Quotas and Lag Monitoring5 minutes
Monitoring Dashboard4 minutes
Kafka Schema Registry6 minutes
Kafka Component and Architecture3 minutes
Kafka Schema Registry - Internal working and Use Cases3 minutes
Kafka Schema Registry Working4 minutes
DEMO: Setting up an Open-Source Health Monitor6 minutes
DEMO: Using Kafka Schema Registry with Kafka3 minutes

1 readingTotal 2 minutes

Introduction and Syllabus2 minutes

7 assignmentsTotal 36 minutes

Kafka Monitoring Essentials4 minutes
Logging & Monitoring4 minutes
Optimizing Kafka Performance4 minutes
Dashboards4 minutes
Kafka Schema Registry Analysis4 minutes
Schema Registry Setup4 minutes
Kafka Monitoring and Schema Registry12 minutes

In this module, learners will explore Kafka Stream architecture, DSL, operations, and processor topology, as well as Kafka Connectors configuration and deployment. By the end of this module, learners will be able to build streaming data pipelines with Kafka Streams and integrate data seamlessly using Kafka Connectors.

What's included

22 videos1 reading5 assignments

22 videosTotal 101 minutes

Kafka Stream Overview3 minutesPreview module
Introduction to Kafka Streams4 minutes
Kafka Stream Architecture and Working3 minutes
Kafka Stream Components3 minutes
Tasks, Threading Model, and Local State Store4 minutes
Kafka Stream Architecture - Record Buffer2 minutes
Memory Management and Streaming Data Pipeline6 minutes
Kafka Stream DSL7 minutes
K-Stream Operations8 minutes
Introduction to K-Table4 minutes
Understanding K-Table Operations 3 minutes
Aggregation and Windowing5 minutes
Processor Topology and Stream Processor3 minutes
Stream and Processor APIs8 minutes
Processor APIs - Create Topology3 minutes
Introduction to Kafka Connectors6 minutes
Standalone and Sink Connector Configuration4 minutes
Running Kafka Connect3 minutes
Kafka Connector Distributed Mode3 minutes
Managing Kafka Connect with HTTP REST API2 minutes
DEMO: Kafka Connector2 minutes
DEMO: Create an Application Using Kafka Streams5 minutes

1 readingTotal 2 minutes

Course Synopsis2 minutes

5 assignmentsTotal 32 minutes

Kafka Stream Analysis4 minutes
Kafka Stream Operations8 minutes
Kafka Connect Overview4 minutes
Kafka Streams4 minutes
Working of Kafka Streams and Kafka Connectors12 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

This course focuses on the concepts and practical applications of monitoring systems, data streams, and connectors in the context of modern data architectures. It covers tools, techniques, and best practices for effective monitoring and integration of data streams using various connectors.

Yes, this course requires a solid understanding of the architecture and components of Kafka which is covered in the first course "Kafka Fundamentals" and the second course " Kafka Architecture and Internals" which belongs to the "Apache Kafka" specialization.

Yes, a course completion certificate is allocated upon completing all graded assignments and quizzes present in the Monitoring, Streams, and Connectors course.

Access to lectures and assignments depends on your type of enrollment. If you take a course in audit mode, you will be able to see most course materials for free. To access graded assignments and to earn a Certificate, you will need to purchase the Certificate experience, during or after your audit. If you don't see the audit option:

The course may not offer an audit option. You can try a Free Trial instead, or apply for Financial Aid.
The course may offer 'Full Course, No Certificate' instead. This option lets you see all course materials, submit required assessments, and get a final grade. This also means that you will not be able to purchase a Certificate experience.

When you enroll in the course, you get access to all of the courses in the Specialization, and you earn a certificate when you complete the work. Your electronic Certificate will be added to your Accomplishments page - from there, you can print your Certificate or add it to your LinkedIn profile. If you only want to read and view the course content, you can audit the course for free.