This book provides Kafka administrators site reliability engineers and DataOps and DevOps
practitioners with a list of real production issues that can occur in Kafka clusters and how to
solve them. The production issues covered are assembled into a comprehensive troubleshooting
guide for those engineers who are responsible for the stability and performance of Kafka
clusters in production whether those clusters are deployed in the cloud or on-premises. This
book teaches you how to detect and troubleshoot the issues and eventually how to prevent them.
Kafka stability is hard to achieve especially in high throughput environments and the purpose
of this book is not only to make troubleshooting easier but also to prevent production issues
from occurring in the first place. The guidance in this book is drawn from the author's years
of experience in helping clients and internal customers diagnose and resolve knotty production
problems and stabilize their Kafka environments. The book is organized into recipe-style
troubleshooting checklists that field engineers can easily follow when under pressure to fix an
unstable cluster. This is the book you will want by your side when the stakes are high and
your job is on the line. What You Will Learn Monitor and resolve production issues in your
Kafka clusters Provision Kafka clusters with the lowest costs and still handle the required
loads Perform root cause analyses of issues affecting your Kafka clusters Know the ways in
which your Kafka cluster can affect its consumers and producers Prevent or minimize data loss
and delays in data streaming Forestall production issues through an understanding of common
failure points Create checklists for troubleshooting your Kafka clusters when problems occur
Who This Book Is For Site reliability engineers tasked with maintaining stability of Kafka
clusters Kafka administrators who troubleshoot production issues around Kafka DevOps and
DataOps experts who are involved with provisioning Kafka (whether on-premises or in the cloud)
developers of Kafka consumers and producers who wish to learn more about Kafka
