This sounds like a pretty good use case for opentracing.org. There is some nice integration with Kafka now too.
--Chris On Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 8:26 AM Dan Rosanova <dar...@microsoft.com.invalid> wrote: > Are you looking more for an Actor or orchestration layer and visibility? I > don’t know of one per se, it would also be interested. > > Dan > > > ________________________________ > From: Jonathan Roy <jonathan....@caldera.com.invalid> > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2018 3:22 AM > To: users@kafka.apache.org > Subject: Monitor the state of an event-based choreography > > Hello, > > We are currently studying event-driven architectures with Kafka, and one > thing that scares me a bit is that we have no way to know at any moment > what is the state of a business transaction that spans multiple services. > Let’s consider the following simple flow: > 1. the ‘orders’ service creates a ‘new order’ event. > 2. the ‘validation’ service validates the order and publishes an ‘order > validated’ or ‘order rejected’. > 3. the ‘email’ service sends a confirmation email to the customer. > > This does not directly concern Kafka but are there some tools that help > visually tracking the status of any particular order, and know which part > of the flow remains to be done? I know Confluent Control Center allows to > monitor the Kafka topics, but I’m not aware of any tool allowing to > visualize the business flows of events. > > Thanks! > > Jonathan Roy >
