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Chitragupta

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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.

CCloud Chargeback Helper

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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?

JMX Monitoring Stacks

Sun, 01 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Observability-First Kafka: Engineering Visibility at Scale

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Presented at Conf42 Observability 2025.

Kafka doesn’t fail cleanly. It stalls, lags, and misfires beneath the surface. This talk cuts through the noise to show what signals actually matter, how to catch issues early, and how to make Kafka observable without drowning in metrics.

Monitor Kafka Clusters with Prometheus, Grafana, and Confluent

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Published on the Confluent Blog, March 2021.

Self-managing a Kafka cluster means wiring up your own monitoring. This post walks through how to export JMX data from Confluent clusters into Prometheus and Grafana with minimal setup. It became the reference blog series for connecting Confluent ecosystems to Prometheus-based monitoring stacks.