New To Kafka - How to Start

Hi, Good day to you. We are on the stage of exploring integration systems and we have read and were introduced with Kafka thru Confluent. May I ask how we can start so we can start learning its capabilities? Hope to hear from you soon. Thanks, *Gilbert V. Flores* (gilbert.flo...@primergrp.com)

Kafka metrics to calculate number of messages in a topic

Hi All, I have a requirement to display the total number of messages in a topic in grafana dashboard. I am looking at the metrics exposed by kafka broker and came across the following metrics. kafka_log_log_logendoffset kafka_log_log_logstartoffset My understanding is that if I take the difference