Data Streams Monitoring for Kafka

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Prerequisites

Datadog Agent v7.34.0 or later

Language	Library	Minimal tracer version	Recommended tracer version
Java	kafka-clients (Lag generation is not supported for v3.7)	1.9.0	1.43.0
Go	confluent-kafka-go	1.56.1	1.66.0 or later
Go	Sarama	1.56.1	1.66.0 or later
Node.js	kafkajs	2.39.0 or 3.26.0 or 4.5.0	5.25.0 or later
Python	confluent-kafka	1.16.0	2.11.0 or later
.NET	Confluent.Kafka	2.28.0	2.41.0 or later

Kafka Streams is partially supported for Java, and can lead to latency measurements being missed.

Setting up Data Streams Monitoring

See setup instructions for Java, Go, Node.js, Python, or .NET.

Monitoring Kafka Pipelines

Data Streams Monitoring uses message headers to propagate context through Kafka streams. If log.message.format.version is set in the Kafka broker configuration, it must be set to 0.11.0.0 or higher. Data Streams Monitoring is not supported for versions lower than this.