Kafka Observability · AI Native

Monitor Kafka performance
Before it costs you.

Parseable unifies Kafka metrics, logs, and traces in one queryable store, so your team catches replication failures, consumer lag, and capacity issues before they become incidents.

K

Possible lag series

From just 100 topics × 50 partitions × 20 consumer groups. Parseable brings high-cardinality Kafka telemetry into a columnar store, so teams can query lag, broker health, logs, and traces without stitching tools together.

2–4 hrs

Avg incident diagnosis time without correlated signals

A Kafka incident spans multiple servers, log files, and tools. Without a unified view, engineers spend hours doing manual detective work while production is still affected.

< 5 min

MTTR with unified Kafka telemetry

When logs, metrics, and traces live in the same queryable store, a single SQL query joins a latency spike, a broker queue event, and a leader election.

Why Parseable

Unified Kafka observability without the tool sprawl

Metrics, logs, and traces from your Kafka cluster land in one place, stored in columnar format and queryable with SQL. No more switching between JMX dashboards, log tailing, and trace UIs to find the same root cause.

Core architecture

Every Kafka signal, unified and queryable

Broker metrics from JMX, controller logs, and producer-to-consumer traces land in a single Parseable stream. Query consumer_group lag alongside broker_id health and partition offsets in one SQL statement.

Broker_id
Topic
Partition
Consumer_group
Lag
broker-0
payments
0
pay-processor
Healthy
broker-1
orders
2
order-service
125,412
broker-0
events
1
analytics-srv
4,821
Cost

60% lower storage overhead

Kafka's high-volume telemetry that creates storage overhead in row-based systems compresses efficiently in Parseable's columnar format.

$4,200 /mo
Row-based
↓ 60%
$1,680 /mo
Parseable
Querying

Diagnose Kafka incidents with one query

Correlate consumer lag, broker queue pressure, state-change logs, and traces in SQL or plain English.

SELECT consumer_group, partition, lag
FROM kafka_metrics
WHERE lag > 1000
ORDER BY lag DESC
OTel Pipeline

Send Kafka telemetry through OpenTelemetry

Send Kafka metrics, logs, and traces through your existing OTel Collector. Parseable accepts the OTLP format out of the box. No re-instrumentation, no new agents.

exporters:
  otlphttp:
    endpoint: ingest.parseable.io
# That's it.
Deployment

Run Parseable in your cloud or ours

Choose Parseable Cloud or BYOC, while keeping Kafka telemetry aligned with your security and infrastructure model.

AWSAvailable
GCPAvailable
AzureAvailable
On-PremAvailable

Use Cases

Built for every observability challenge

Full stack observability

Monitor applications, databases, infrastructure, network, and cloud providers from a single platform. Parseable's columnar storage keeps high cardinality telemetry manageable without forcing you to drop labels or cap retention.

  • Correlate app errors with infra metrics in a single SQL query
  • No schema changes when new services or labels appear
  • Drill into P99 latency by pod, region, or user segment
astronomy-shop-traces
Duration: 38.5msSpans: 53
Span name
0ms9.6ms19.3ms28.9ms38.5ms
user_checkout_multi
38.5ms
POST load-generator
17.6ms
ingress
15.3ms
router frontend
15.2ms
POST frontend
14.8ms
executing api route
14.5ms
grpc.oteldem.Check
13.5ms
prepareOrderItems
7.6ms
db.query.products
5.1ms
cache.get
1.2ms
POST cart-service
9.8ms

AI workloads observability

Leverage telemetry data from MCPs, LLMs, and Agents to build end-to-end visibility with confidence. Track token usage, latency per model, and cost across inference calls.

  • Cost breakdown per model, per user, per session
  • Token-level latency histograms and P99 tracking
  • Alert on unexpected cost spikes or model drift
Agents · Drill-downLast 24 hours

Total sessions

1,246

−12%

Total tokens

18.2M

+23%

Latency P95

5.32s

−7%

Error rate

2.4%

−17%

Trace ID
Model
Tokens
Prompt
trc_9f3a2c1b
claude-3-5
1,842

My order #88821 hasn't arrived and I'd like a refund...

trc_9f3a2c2a
claude-3-5
976

My package was supposed to arrive yesterday, can you...

trc_9f3a2c3b
claude-3-5
2,103

I received the wrong item and I would like to exchange...

trc_9f3a4c1d
claude-opus
3,418

I want to delete my account and all associated data...

trc_9f3a5c2e
claude-3-5
654

I just wanted to say how great the support was during...

trc_9f3a6c3f
claude-3-5
1,291

Can you confirm that my payment of $142.50 was processed...

trc_9f3a7c4g
claude-opus
2,874

I'd like to upgrade my plan to Pro but the button isn't...

Product observability

Understand user behavior, feature adoption, and performance to optimize the user experience. Correlate product events with infrastructure telemetry for a complete picture.

  • Full-cardinality funnel analysis, not sampled, not aggregated away
  • Feature adoption by plan, cohort, region, or user segment
  • Tie slow API responses directly to user drop-off
Query 1astronomy-shop-traces
SELECT
  "service.name",
  "rpc.method",
  "rpc.grpc.status_code",
  span_name, span_trace_id
FROM astronomy-shop-traces
Run ▶SaveFound 125 records
service.name
rpc.method
status
span_name
fraud-detection
EventStream
4
flagd.evaluation.v1.Service/Eve...
fraud-detection
EventStream
4
flagd.evaluation.v1.Service/Eve...
order-service
CreateOrder
0
oteldemo.OrderService/PlaceOrd...
cart-service
GetCart
0
oteldemo.CartService/GetCart...

Audit logging

Capture and analyze user activity, system events, and security logs to ensure compliance and security. Columnar storage keeps audit queries fast even at billion-event scale.

  • Immutable audit trail with configurable retention
  • Sub-second search across all users, actions, and endpoints
  • Export to SIEM or compliance tooling via OTel
astronomy-shop-logs
Last 1 hourSummarize
INFO
WARN
ERROR
8:25am8:37am8:49am9:01am9:13am

2026-04-29T09:23:59.847

body:Convert conversion successful
flags:1
host.name:anton-M5-7D75
service.name:currency
log_category:INFO
observed_time:2026-04-29T09:23:59.776
schema_url:opentelemetry.io/schemas/1.6.1
scope_name:currency
scope_version:1.23.0

2026-04-29T09:24:01.203

body:Payment auth failed: timeout
flags:0
host.name:node-42-prod
service.name:checkout
log_category:ERROR
observed_time:2026-04-29T09:24:01.119
schema_url:opentelemetry.io/schemas/1.6.1
scope_name:checkout
scope_version:1.23.0

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Can't find what you need? Talk to us.

Identify Kafka issues before they become incidents.

Unify Kafka metrics, logs, and traces in Parseable to catch lag, replication issues, and broker failures before they impact downstream systems.

Subscribe to our newsletter

Get the latest updates on Parseable features, best practices, and observability insights delivered to your inbox.

SFO

Parseable Inc.

584 Castro St, #2112

San Francisco, California

94114-2512

Phone: +1 (650) 444 6216

BLR

Cloudnatively Services Pvt Ltd.

JBR Tech Park

Whitefield, Bengaluru

560066

Phone: +91 9480931554

All systems operational

Parseable