Intelligently Monitor and Avoid Critical Apache Kafka Issues with Health+

Confluent Health+ is a cloud-based monitoring and support service for self-managed Confluent Platform deployments that aims to reduce Kafka downtime, monitoring complexity, and infrastructure costs. It automatically configures more than 30 expert-developed alerts, categorized by critical, warning, and informational severity, and can send notifications through Slack, email, or webhooks. Its dashboards provide real-time and historical views of selected cluster-health metrics, identify potential problem areas, explain metric significance, and recommend remediation steps while updating automatically for new platform features and versions. Health+ also gives Confluent Support secure access to relevant telemetry and configuration context, avoiding manual collection of JMX dumps and other diagnostic information and potentially reducing resolution time. The service transmits operational telemetry, rather than Kafka message content, via encrypted HTTPS to Confluent Cloud, supports outbound proxy configurations, and can reduce self-hosted monitoring requirements; customers using Confluent Control Center’s reduced infrastructure mode are estimated to save about 70% on monitoring infrastructure costs.

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