Prerequisites for Prometheus configuration

Learn the prerequisites before you configure Prometheus for Streams Messaging Manager.

You must download Prometheus and install Prometheus and Prometheus node exporters for each Kafka broker. Streams Messaging Manager requires system-level metrics for each Kafka broker and therefore, Prometheus node exporter must be configured for each Kafka broker. Cloudera only supports Linux node exporters.
Cloudera recommends using a dedicated Prometheus instance for Streams Messaging Manager because other services querying Prometheus could use the capacity causing Streams Messaging Manager query to timeout.