Interested, will put some time learn about opentracing.org. On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 9:34 AM, Christopher Smith <cbsm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 > > >
