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Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications. With Kafka, you can ingest Superblocks logs and to stream them to your Observability vendor of choice to create monitoring, alerting, and analysis dashboard for Superblocks.

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Send logs from Superblocks to Kafka

To send Superblocks logs to Kafka, you will need:
  1. A Kafka cluster with a topic where you want to receive logs
  2. (Optional) If using Superblocks Cloud, add Superblocks’s IPs to your allowlist.

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Set up Observability in Superblocks

  1. Log in to Superblocks
  2. Navigate to Organization Settings → Observability
  3. Click the Kafka tile
  4. Provide the following settings:
SettingDescription
Bootstrap ServerThe Kafka server to connect to in the format <HOST>:<PORT>.
TopicKafka topic to send logs to.
SASL Username/PasswordFollow the format <USERNAME>:<PASSWORD>. A username and password that can authenticate with the Kafka server. This uses the SASL/PLAIN authentication mechanism.
  1. Click Create
You’re done! The next time a user takes an action in Superblocks, you’ll receive a copy of the log to your Kafka topic. Learn more about log types and schemas.