topic Monitor Confluent Kafka Connectors with Dynatrace Extensions in Extensions

Monitor Confluent Kafka Connectors with Dynatrace Extensions

Kafkasre — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:51:11 GMT

Summary: This post discusses options for monitoring Confluent Kafka connectors in Dynatrace. It explains what metrics are exposed by connectors, how extensions can collect them, and limitations depending on each connector’s endpoint.

Hi, I want to configure "Confluent Kafka Connector" in the data explorer in the default "Confluent Cloud (Kafka) Overview" dashboard.

Does it support out of the box, or need to use the JMX metrics option only?

Confluent Kafka Connectors

- Metrics to choose for this table

- Kafka connectors count, Dead Letter queues, Sent/Received records count

Status of Confluent Connectors (in other table)

- Status : Running/Stopped/Pause

Alert to send when Connector stopped

Please guide me to any document or steps to achieve this.

Thanks.

Re: Confluent Kafka connector monitoring

Pawel_Zalewski — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 08:14:34 GMT

Hi,

https://www.dynatrace.com/hub/detail/confluent-cloud-kafka/. (all available metric, content and features down below)

https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/extend-dynatrace/extend-metrics/ingestion-methods/prometheus/prometheus-extensions#before-you-begin (configuration)

I found this two documents hopes it helps 🙂

Best regards

Re: Confluent Kafka connector monitoring

Kafkasre — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 13:12:56 GMT

@Pawel_Zalewski Can we collet confluent connector metrics through out of the box extension or not.

I have gone through one of the forum questions and still in confusion:

Solved: Monitor the Kafka connector & task status - Dynatrace Community

Can we integrate JMX extension with default Confluent Cloud (Kafka) Overview dashboard?

Please share the document how to integrate or collect JMX metrics for Connector through default Confluent Cloud (Kafka) Overview dashboard?

Re: Confluent Kafka connector monitoring

Pawel_Zalewski — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 08:31:48 GMT

Hi,

Can we collet confluent connector metrics through out of the box extension or not?

No we can't, this is planned but not yet implemented

Can we integrate JMX extension with default Confluent Cloud (Kafka) Overview dashboard?

Also no unfortunately

Please share the document how to integrate or collect JMX metrics for Connector through default Confluent Cloud (Kafka) Overview dashboard?

I was looking for it and didn't find anything. Only docs i found was this wich i've already post above.

Best Regards