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Configure Pulse to Monitor Standalone Kafka 3 with Kerberos

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

Info

This is supported from Pulse 4.0.5 onwards.

Steps

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

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  • Select Kafka3 Standalone component.

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  • Enter Cluster Name.

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  • Enter Kafka bootstrap server’s URI.

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  • Select Kerberos as the security type.

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  • Select TLS is enabled or not.

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  • Enter Kerberos Authentication Realm.

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  • Enter Kerberos keytab username.

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  • Enter Principalfor kafka client.

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  • Enter full path to the Client Keytabfile.

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  • Enter full path to the krb5.conf file.

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

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  • Select Metadata Manager → Zookeeper / KRaft.

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  • Enter the URI’s for MetaData Manager.

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  • Enter Kafka Connect hostname and port.

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  • Enter Cruise Control hostname and port.

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  • Enter Schema Registry hostname and port.

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  • Enter the ssh user details.

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  • Enter all the required JMX ports and LogSearch configurations.

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Additional Configuration

  • Update Kafka Connector Config

Add the following in:

$ACCELDATA_HOME/config/acceldata.conf

kafka3.connectors {
saslMechanism = "GSSAPI"
}
  • Configure Log Locations

Create:

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

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
  • Apply Configuration to Update Vars.yml.
accelo reconfig cluster

Kafka Data in Pulse

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

Kafka Dashboard

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Kafka Nodes

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Kafka Logs

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