Monitor Kafka Connect

  • To enable this feature, contact Redpanda Support. To disable this feature, see Disable Kafka Connect.

  • Redpanda Support does not manage or monitor Kafka Connect. For fully-supported connectors, consider Redpanda Connect.

  • When Kafka Connect is enabled, there is a dedicated node running even when no connectors are deployed.

You can monitor the health of your Redpanda managed connectors with metrics that Redpanda exports through a Prometheus HTTPS endpoint. You can use Grafana to visualize the metrics and set up alerts.

The most important metrics to be monitored by alerts are:

  • connector failed tasks

  • connector lag / connector lag rate

Limitations

The connectors dashboard renders metrics that are exported by managed connectors. However, when a connector does not create a task (for example, an empty topic list), the dashboard will not show metrics for that connector.