What you'll learn

Kafka clusters degrade quietly. Lag rises, replicas fall behind, and storage pressure builds until performance collapses. In this course, Operate and Monitor Kafka Clusters, you’ll gain the ability to operate KRaft-based Kafka clusters safely in production. First, you’ll explore the core operational responsibilities needed for healthy brokers, partitions, and replicas. Next, you’ll discover how to monitor Kafka’s health and performance metrics using JMX, CLI tools, and dashboards. Finally, you’ll learn how to scale, tune, and troubleshoot Kafka clusters so they remain stable, observable, and ready for real workloads. When you’re finished, you’ll have the skills and knowledge required to run reliable, observable, and scalable Kafka clusters using the modern KRaft architecture.