Building Custom Kafka Monitoring Dashboards

Create dashboards tailored to your team's needs. Combine broker metrics, consumer lag, topic throughput, and custom KPIs in a single unified view.

Dashboard Builder

Drag-and-drop interface for composing observability views that match your workflow

Flexible Grid Layout

Arrange widgets in a responsive grid. Resize panels, reorder rows, and create the exact layout that works for your team's screens and workflows.

Drag-and-drop positioning

Resizable widget panels

Multi-row arrangements

Rich Widget Library

Choose from time-series charts, bar graphs, gauges, stat panels, heatmaps, and table widgets to visualize any Kafka metric.

Time-series line & area charts

Stat & gauge panels

Sortable data tables

Metric Targeting

Query any metric collected by KLogic: broker throughput, consumer lag, partition counts, replication state, and more with granular filtering.

Filter by cluster, topic, group

Aggregation functions (sum, avg, max)

Regex-based topic grouping

Widget Types & Use Cases

Select the right visualization for each type of Kafka data

Time-Series Charts

Track how metrics evolve over time. Essential for spotting trends, traffic spikes, and gradual degradation.

Best Used For

Messages per second over 24h

Consumer lag trend per group

Broker CPU and memory over time

Network throughput per broker

Stat & Gauge Panels

Display single values with optional threshold coloring. Perfect for at-a-glance health indicators.

Best Used For

Total active consumer groups

Broker count (healthy vs total)

Current disk usage percentage

Max consumer lag across groups

Data Tables

Tabular views with sorting and threshold coloring. Ideal for comparing metrics across multiple entities.

Best Used For

Top 10 lagging consumer groups

Topic throughput comparison

Broker resource usage side-by-side

Under-replicated partition listing

KPI Configuration

Define business-level KPIs on top of raw Kafka metrics

Defining KPIs

KPIs combine raw metrics using expressions to produce meaningful business indicators. Set warning and critical thresholds to drive visual coloring.

Example: Order Pipeline Health

name: "order-pipeline-lag-p95"

metric: consumer_lag_sum

filter: group=order-processor

warning_threshold: 5000

critical_threshold: 50000

unit: messages

Example KPI Dashboard Layout

Order Pipeline Lag842 msgs

Threshold: warn >5k, crit >50k

Payment Processing Rate320/s

Threshold: warn <400/s, crit <200/s

Broker Health Score100%

All 6 brokers online and healthy

Schema Registry Latency12ms

Threshold: warn >100ms, crit >500ms

Sharing & Collaboration

Make dashboards available to your entire team and stakeholders

Team Dashboards

Publish dashboards to your workspace so all team members can access shared views without recreating them individually.

Workspace-level visibility

Role-based access control

Shareable Links

Generate read-only links for dashboards to share with stakeholders who need visibility but do not require full KLogic access.

Public read-only links

Embed in internal wikis

Dashboard Templates

Start from KLogic's pre-built templates for common use cases, then customize them to match your specific environment and naming conventions.

Broker overview template

Consumer group health template

Build Your Perfect Kafka Dashboard

KLogic's flexible dashboard builder lets you create tailored monitoring views for operations, engineering, and business stakeholders alike.

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