# Kibana dashboards for Kafka
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboards-for-kafka/183957
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [June 3, 2019, 12:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboards-for-kafka/183957 "2019-06-03T12:13:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@danielpetisme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielpetisme)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2019, 12:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboards-for-kafka/183957/1 "2019-06-03T12:13:23Z")
Hello,
I'm considering to monitor my Kafka platform components (brokers, zookeepers, etc.) and the associated JVMs.
I'm wondering if there is Kibana dashboards already existing?
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### Author:  [@nickpeihl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nickpeihl)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2019, 8:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboards-for-kafka/183957/2 "2019-06-03T20:07:46Z")
[Metricbeat](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current) comes with modules for Kafka and Zookeeper. Follow [this guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/configuration-metricbeat.html) to enable modules (e.g. `./metricbeat enable kafka zookeeper`).
Then run `./metricbeat setup` to install the dashboards into Kibana.
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### Author:  [@danielpetisme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielpetisme)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2019, 7:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboards-for-kafka/183957/3 "2019-06-10T19:50:19Z")
Thanks but it looks like the current module version supports only `SASL PLAINTEXT` authentication.
IMHO, this option is not acceptable for a production Kafka cluster.
Thanks for our answer but it doesn't work for my context.
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### Author:  [@nickpeihl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nickpeihl)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2019, 11:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboards-for-kafka/183957/4 "2019-06-10T23:10:59Z")
Sorry, I'm not very familiar with Metricbeat's internals. The folks in the [Beats forums](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/beats) might be more helpful.
Have you checked the [issues in the beats repository](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues) for an enhancement request for alternate authentication protocols? If there isn't one, perhaps you can create an issue?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2019, 11:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboards-for-kafka/183957/5 "2019-07-08T23:22:25Z")
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