Configure Pulse to Monitor Standalone Kafka 3 with Kerberos

This page describes about configuring Pulse to monitor standalone Kafka 3 with Kerberos.

On a Pulse node, run accelo config cluster.
Select Stand-Alone deployment during deployment type.

Select Kafka3 Standalone component.

Enter Cluster Name.

Enter Kafka bootstrap server’s URI.

Select Kerberos as the security type.

Select TLS is enabled or not.

Enter Kerberos Authentication Realm.

Enter Kerberos keytab username.

Enter Principalfor kafka client.

Enter full path to the Client Keytabfile.

Enter full path to the krb5.conf file.

If the above configurations are correct, the CLI will automatically fetch the list of brokers.
- Verify the list and select y to proceed.

Select Metadata Manager → Zookeeper / KRaft.

Enter the URI’s for MetaData Manager.

Enter Kafka Connect hostname and port.

Enter Cruise Control hostname and port.

Enter Schema Registry hostname and port.

Enter the ssh user details.

Enter all the required JMX ports and LogSearch configurations.

Additional Configuration

Update Kafka Connector Config

Add the following in:

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$ACCELDATA_HOME/config/acceldata.conf
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kafka3.connectors {  saslMechanism = "GSSAPI"}
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Configure Log Locations

Create:

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$ACCELDATA_HOME/work/<cluster_name>/override.yml
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Add:

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log_locations:  kafka3_connect:    - path: /path_to/connect.log      type: DEFAULT  kafka3_connect_err:    - path: /path_to/kafka-connect.err      type: KAFKA_ERR  kafka3_controller:    - path: /path_to/controller.log      type: DEFAULT  kafka3_cruise_control:    - path: /path_to/kafkacruisecontrol.log      type: DEFAULT  kafka3_cruise_control_err:    - path: /path_to/cruise-control.err      type: KAFKA_ERR  kafka3_log_cleaner:    - path: /path_to/log-cleaner.log      type: DEFAULT  kafka3_server:    - path: /path_to/server.log      type: DEFAULT  kafka3_server_gc:    - path: /path_to/kafkaServer-gc.log      type: DEFAULT  kafka3_state_change:    - path: /path_to/state-change.log      type: DEFAULT  kraftbroker_err:    - path: /path_to/kraft-broker.err      type: DEFAULT  kraftcontroller_err:    - path: /path_to/kraft-controller.err      type: DEFAULT  registry_err:    - path: /path_to/registry.err      type: REGISTRY  registry_server:    - path: /path_to/registry.log      type: REGISTRY
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Apply Configuration to Update Vars.yml.

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accelo reconfig cluster
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Kafka Data in Pulse

After the configuration, you can see the Kafka data in Pulse.

Kafka Dashboard

Kafka Nodes

Kafka Logs

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