At one of my previous assignments, we had an environment where we were running our microservices on Azure AKS clusters and were connecting to Kafka clusters in Confluent Cloud. For our monitoring and logging, we were using Datadog. Datadog has an integration with Confluent, but that is not for the Confluent Cloud platform. Since we had all of our dashboards in Datadog we really liked to have the Confluent Cloud metrics in Datadog as well. With this blog post, I will show you how to get this done when you have a similar setup.

If you need some help with creating dashboards you can check the Datadog documentation here. Once you have set up the widget with the metrics you like, you will get something like the dashboard below.
If you have any questions then you can leave a comment or contact Bram via Github, Linkedin, or Twitter.
Originally published on Bram’s blog.