These are the slides that I showed on our demo stand at the Kafka Summit London 2019. They show how Nastel provides management, monitoring, tracing and tracking for Kafka solutions as well as incorporating other technologies such as IBM MQ, Tibco EMS, MFT, IBM Event Streams.

1. Nastel Overview
prepared for
Kafka Summit
London 2019
Park Plaza Westminster
Bridge Hotel
13-14 May 2019
Sam Garforth
sgarforth@nastel.com
@samjgarforth

2. Nastel’s Solution – 360° Situational Awareness™
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MIDDLEWARE
MANAGEMENT
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PROACTIVE
MONITORING
DIAGNOSTICS
ANALYTICS TRACKING
DECISION
SUPPORT
OS
DBMS
MIDDLE
WARE
APP
STACK

3. Nastel Technologies Solution Offering
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 Nastel® Navigator – Automated discovery of middleware
estate … Simplified configuration management … Full
audit trail of changes (who, what, where) … Secure,
granular delegation of specific authorities to Dev/Ops
 Nastel® AutoPilot – Easily managed, policy-based, real-
time monitoring … Trend & pattern detection …
notifications, proactive alerting … automated actions
 Nastel® XRay – Analytics, diagnostics, decision support
and tracking … Tracking capabilities include full visibility
of application message flows, in business context:
resources, applications, events, timings, topologies

4. Middleware Management - Nastel Navigator
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5. Nastel AutoPilot for Kafka
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6. Nastel AutoPilot for Kafka
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7. Nastel XRay – Kafka Analytics
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8. Nastel XRay – Kafka Tracing
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 Show elapsed time of message workflows
from start to end
 Drill down into details of messaging
events & timings
 Show elapsed time of each message
“hop” (event)
 Identify root cause : events & resources
that may have contributed to increased
time … CPU … contention
 Learn the topology of message flows
 Detect and alert upon exceptions based
on historical data from prior messages
flows
 Recognize changes in workflow timings
such that a new baseline can be formed