Kafka Overview

Kafka message queue refers to Apache Kafka. It is an open-source distributed event streaming platform. Producers publish messages to topics. These messages are stored in a distributed manner across a cluster of servers called brokers. Consumers subscribe to these topics and process messages enabling both real-time processing and batch processing of data.

For more information about installing the Kafka agent, see Installing Kafka.

The following key concepts are available from the MQ monitoring page. For more information, see the following:

• Overview
• Producer
• Consumer
• Broker
• Zookeeper

Related topic:

Kafka dashboard