Telemetry is the automatic measurement and transmission of data from remote sources to an IT system. This document discusses telemetry in the context of monitoring bare metal, IaaS, and CaaS infrastructure and provides links to resources about Kafka monitoring tools like KEMI Stats, KEMI Logs, and KOCOON. It also includes links to Jira issues and discussions around Kafka consumer offsets topic cleanup policies and notable changes in upgrading to Kafka version 9.0.1.