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linkedin/Burrow

Kafka Consumer Lag Checking observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/linkedin/Burrow · Go · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

89/100

  • Activity 98
  • Release rhythm 71
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 48.0
  • age_days: 4111
  • days_rel: 114
  • days_push: 12
  • n_releases_24m: 7

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3962 stars · 817 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Burrow is a monitoring service for Apache Kafka that checks consumer lag without requiring static thresholds, evaluating consumer groups over a sliding window of committed offsets. It exposes an HTTP endpoint for on-demand status and supports configurable email and HTTP notifiers for alerts.

Use cases

  • monitor kafka consumer lag
  • alert when kafka consumers fall behind
  • check consumer group status via http
  • monitor multiple kafka clusters
  • track consumer offsets without thresholds

When to choose

  • you run Apache Kafka and need automated consumer lag monitoring
  • you want threshold-free lag evaluation over a sliding window
  • you need an HTTP API for consumer group and broker status
  • you want email or webhook alerts for lagging consumer groups

When to avoid

  • you use a message broker other than Kafka
  • you need full Kafka metrics dashboards rather than lag checking
  • you want a UI-based monitoring tool rather than an HTTP service

Facets

service · maturity active

monitoring alerting http-server message-queue monitoring microservices go self-hosted cross-platform kafka consumer-lag apache-kafka observability go messaging devops linux docker

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