Welcome to the Splunk Technology addon for Kafka streaming platform documentation¶
The Technology addon for Kafka streaming platform is a simple addon that provides indexing and searching time configuration to monitor and index the events from Apache Kafka components, as well as Confluent stack components:
- Zookeeper
- Apache Kafka Brokers
- Apache Kafka Connect
- Confluent schema-registry
- Confluent ksql-server
- Confluent kafka-rest
The addon replaces advantageously the deprecated Splunk addon for Kafka, which manages only Zookeeper and brokers components.
The addon is as well used by the Kafka monitoring application and ITSI module to provide integration between metrics and logs:
It is recommended to read the unified guide for Kafka and Confluent monitoring first: