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Elastic Kafka Monitoring Example

Filebeat, ingest pipeline, Elasticsearch template, sample logs, and Kibana dashboard assets for monitoring Kafka with Elastic Stack.

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Monitor Kafka logs with Elastic using a complete example that includes Filebeat configuration, ingest pipelines, sample logs, and Kibana assets.

What is included

  • Filebeat Kafka monitoring configuration and sample Kafka logs.
  • Elasticsearch templates and ingest pipelines for Kafka logs.
  • Kibana dashboard and visualization JSON files.

Who it helps

Observability teams running Kafka can use this as a reference for log parsing, enrichment, and dashboard import workflows.

Compatibility

The Filebeat Kafka monitoring README states the blog uses Elastic Stack 5.1.1. Tagged as 5.x compatibility.

Source and license

Source: elastic/examples kafka_monitoring. The upstream repository is licensed under Apache 2.0.

The ZIP attached to this draft contains the reusable upstream files plus the available license or notice files.

Tested versions 5.x
ECS compliant
Tested versions

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