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title: Monitor Kafka Clusters
description: Monitor performance, set up alerts, and forward logs.
product: Databases
url: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/kafka/how-to/monitor/
last_updated: "2026-07-31"
---

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# Monitor Kafka Clusters

Generated on 31 Jul 2026

Kafka is an open-source distributed event and stream-processing platform built to process demanding real-time data feeds. It is inherently scalable, with high throughput and availability.

[How to Monitor Kafka Database Performance](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/kafka/how-to/monitor-databases/index.html.md): Access and interpret Kafka database and cluster performance metrics.

[How to Set Up Kafka Cluster Monitoring Alerts](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/kafka/how-to/set-up-alerts/index.html.md): Configure alert policies based on database cluster performance metrics.

[How to Forward Logs from a Kafka Cluster](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/kafka/how-to/forward-logs/index.html.md): Forward database logs to OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, or Rsyslog.