A quick and dirty way to monitor data arriving on Kafka
Read OriginalThis article details a simple, hacky solution for monitoring data flow into Apache Kafka. It uses kafkacat to poll the latest message timestamp, jq for extraction, and a bash script to check against a threshold. If the data is stale, it sends an alert via a Telegram bot, providing a lightweight monitoring setup for unstable data sources like a Raspberry Pi running tshark.
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