Overview of Kafka Operations

This guide contains topics to help you manage an Apache Kafka® cluster.

Here, we will cover three main topics:

• Deploying your cluster to production, including best practices and important configuration that should (or should not!) be changed
• Performing post-deployment logistics, such as a rolling restart or backup of your cluster
• Monitoring your cluster’s vital statistics, understanding which behaviors are normal and which should be cause for alarm, and interpreting various stats provided by Kafka

If you’re just getting started with Confluent Platform and Kafka, see also Kafka Basics on Confluent Platform and Quick Start for Confluent Platform.

The following topics are included in this guide:

• Running Kafka in Production
• Post Kafka Deployment
• Self-Balancing Clusters
• Auto Data Balancing
• Monitoring Kafka with JMX
• Confluent Metrics Reporter
• Tiered Storage

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