If there are multiple zookeeper and Kafka pods, a single window would be a boon for administrators. Grafana provides Loki and Promtail this functionality.

Introduction

In one of my another articles, I discussed how to set up strimzi (also known as Kafka on Kubernetes) on minikube. Also, we discussed how to set up Grafana and Prometheus to fetch metrics from Kafka and zookeeper instances. But wouldn’t it have been more helpful and more administrator-friendly if Grafana could also be used to monitor logs of all the pods? If there are multiple zookeeper and Kafka pods, a single window would certainly be a boon for administrators and management.

Grafana provides Loki and Promtail a functionality to aggregate logs and view them from the same Grafana UI.

I have tested this in Fedora 33, minikube version: v1.15.1.

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