BURROW(8)

✨ BURROW(8) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Burrow page — it lives in section 8 of the system manager's manual and it's literally the moment your Kafka anxiety gets healed 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

Burrow — Apache Kafka consumer lag checking. that's the whole vibe, no cap 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

Burrow [-config-dir directory]

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so Burrow is a monitoring companion for Apache Kafka, and what it does is consumer lag checking as a service — without you ever needing to specify thresholds. not me being obsessed with a tool that just knows 😭 no threshold config, no vibes-based guessing, it just does it.

It monitors committed offsets for all consumers and calculates the status of those consumers on demand. all of them. every single one. slay 💅

There's also an HTTP endpoint provided so you can request status on demand, plus it hands out other Kafka cluster information too. main character API energy fr fr ✨

And there are configurable notifiers as well, which can send status out via email or via HTTP calls to another service. so Burrow can just text your other services about what's going on 🫶

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -config-dir — the directory that contains the configuration file. that's it, that's the option, and she ate 🍓

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Documentation at https://github.com/linkedin/Burrow/wiki. go read it, iykyk 📚

mwah, that's a wrap 💜 this was the system manager's manual edition, dated May 28 2018, and the page is literally called BURROW(8). go check your consumer lag, bestie, you got this 👑