Kafka within EFK Monitoring

Today’s world is entirely internet-driven, be it in any field, we can get any product of our choice with one click.

Talking about e-commerce more in DevOps terms, the entire application/website is based on microservice architecture i.e. distributing a bulk application into smaller services to increase scalability, manageability & more process driven.

Hence, to maintain smaller services one of the important aspects is to enable their Monitoring

One such commonly known stack is, EFK stack i.e. (Elasticsearch, Fluentd, Kibana) along with Kafka

Kafka is basically an open-source event streaming platform and is currently used by many companies. 

Question: Why use Kafka within EFK monitoring?  

Answer: Well this is the first question that strikes many minds hence, in this blog we’ll focus on why to use Kafka, what are its benefits and how to integrate it with the EFK stack. 

Interesting right? 🙂 let’s begin -:

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