BROKA documentation
Operate Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ and Apache Artemis (formerly ActiveMQ Artemis) from one console — plus Memcached, which is a cache rather than a broker and is operated as one. Connect them, set up the people and guardrails around them, and read what every screen actually does. Every page applies to the self-hosted product — there is no hosted variant to keep track of.
112 pages · version 1.0.1 (BROKA 1.0.1) — an older release · applies to Community and Commercial unless a page says otherwise
Getting started
6What BROKA is, and the handful of ideas the rest of the documentation is built on.
Deployment
3Platform administration
15Environments, connections, people and the guardrails between them — the parts that are the same whichever broker you run.
Kafka
24Clusters, brokers, topics, consumer groups, producing and consuming, schemas, ACLs and credentials, Connect, transactions, quotas and client metrics.
- Clusters
- Brokers
- Metadata quorum and features
- Reassignments and leader election
- JMX metrics
- Topics
- Partitions and leaders
- Producers and open transactions
- Consumer groups and lag
- Group offsets and operations
- Share and streams groups
- Producing messages
- Reading messages
- Filtering messages
- Schema Registry
- Schema compatibility and modes
- Schema metadata and contexts
- Service accounts and ACLs
- SCRAM credentials
- Delegation tokens
- Kafka Connect
- Transactions
- Client quotas
- Client metrics
Redis
18Instances, clusters and Sentinel, the keyspace and its keys, Streams and their consumer groups, pending entries, memory, Pub/Sub, ACLs, search indexes and tools.
RabbitMQ
15Connections, exchanges, queues of all three types, routing, dead-letter flows, policies, shovels and federation, users and definitions.
Apache Artemis
15Addresses and their queues, messages browsed and operated on, connections and sessions, diverts, address settings, cluster and replication, users and in-doubt transactions.
- Overview
- Addresses
- Queues and subscriptions
- Queue detail and message counters
- Scheduled, in-flight and grouped messages
- Editing a queue
- Message operations
- Connections and sessions
- Consumers and producers
- Diverts
- Address settings
- Cluster and replication
- Users and permissions
- Transactions
- Broker configuration, acceptors and maintenance
Memcached
6Nodes rather than a cluster, memory and slab classes, keys read one at a time or listed on request, and the live event log.
Operations
10Day-two work: the dashboard, alerts and search, hardening, reviewing the audit trail, investigating an incident, and troubleshooting.