Brolly uses Aiven for Apache Kafka to make sense of its customer's social data
Social media archiving & insights platform, Brolly, needed a robust and compliant way to capture and store its massive volumes of customer data.
The blog will take you through best practices to observe Kafka-based solutions implemented on Confluent Cloud with Elastic Observability. (To monitor Kafka brokers that are not in Confluent Cloud, I recommend checking out this blog.) We will instrument Kafka applications with Elastic APM, use the Confluent Cloud metrics endpoint to get data about brokers, and pull it all together with a unified Kafka and Confluent Cloud monitoring dashboard in Elastic Observability.