In Hindu tradition, Chitragupta is the deity who maintains a complete record of every being’s actions. The divine accountant. Fitting name for a system that tracks exactly who used what and how much it cost.
When multiple teams share a Confluent Cloud environment but a single CoE team manages everything, the billing question comes up fast: who’s actually using what, and how much does it cost?
Most monitoring setups for Kafka require long and lengthy parsing configurations to get JMX metrics into your telemetry system. This project standardizes that pipeline across Prometheus/Grafana, New Relic, Elastic/Kibana, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry.
Starting a Kafka cluster is easy. Sizing it correctly is where things get interesting. Most teams start with 3 brokers because that’s the minimum, and then hope it’s enough. This tool replaces the hope with math.