Here are the slides and demo that we presented at the Kafka Summit 2019 in San Francisco. Nastel has been in the business of delivering Middleware Centric Application Performance Monitoring and Management for over 25 years., We have the most comprehensive and advanced Enterprise grade Management and Monitoring solution for Apache Kafka that brings together Monitoring, Management, Tracing and Tracking in one solution. We also support all other Middleware allowing you to guarantee high availability and reliability using one tool across multiple middleware.

1. Nastel Overview
prepared for
Kafka Summit
San Francisco 2019
Hilton Hotel
Union Square
September 30th – October 1st 2019

2. Nastel Technologies Solution Offering
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Middleware Management
✓
Real-time Monitoring
XOK ! XOK !
Analytics, Decision
Support & Tracking
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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. Nastel’s Solution – 360° Situational Awareness™
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MIDDLEWARE
MANAGEMENT
✓
PROACTIVE
MONITORING
DIAGNOSTICS
ANALYTICS TRACKING
DECISION
SUPPORT
OS
DBMS
MIDDLE
WARE
APP
STACK
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5. Nastel Navigator for Kafka
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6. Nastel AutoPilot for Kafka
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7. Nastel AutoPilot for Kafka
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8. AutoPilot for Kafka – Real time monitoring dashboards
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9. Monitor and Alert
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▪ Policy-based, real-time monitoring for
performance events across application
infrastructure
▪ 3 step creation of monitoring policies via
a built-in wizard – no complex scripting
▪ Easily configurable notifications &
proactive alerts
▪ Automated actions based on alert
severity – execute external scripts,
programs, 3rd party utilities, etc. to
automate problem resolution
▪ Monitoring policies can combine metrics
from multiple sources (e.g. middleware,
operating system, network, applications)
▪ Built-in statistical analytics for trend and
pattern detection
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10. Analytics with Integrated, Natural Query Language
▪ NoSQL Analytical Platform
▪ Streaming analytics for time-series
data
▪ Intuitive "English-like" query
language
Get number of events for last hour
group by Applname, Severity
show as [scorecard | linechart |…]
▪ Viewlets: web dashboards
▪ Samples provided for quick start
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11. Nastel XRay – Kafka Analytics
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12. 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
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13. Nastel XRay for Kafka – History of events, analytics
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Drilldown to
details of alerts

14. Nastel XRay for Kafka – Tracking & analysis of message workflows
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Order
details
Order
summaryOrder
search

15. Nastel XRay for Kafka – Tracking & analysis of message workflows
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Kafka topic
message
payload
Breakdown of Kafka
messaging events
by topic

16. Nastel XRay for Kafka – Tracking & analysis of message workflows
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Kafka message
rates - details

17. Nastel Solutions
For Kafka