Hawkeye Demo: AI SRE Solves Confluent Kafka Producer ACL Issue

Описание: 🔧Kafka ACL permissions blocking your producers? This is one of the most common yet tricky issues in distributed systems - when your Kafka producers suddenly can't write to topics due to Access Control List (ACL) misconfigurations. This demo showcases a real-world scenario where a Confluent Kafka cluster denies producer access after ACL updates, causing application failures and data pipeline disruptions.
The Scenario:

Spring Boot application with Kafka producers writing to multiple topics
Recent ACL policy changes restrict producer permissions
Authentication succeeds but authorization fails
Result: Producer writes fail with authorization errors, breaking data flows

Why This Is Hard to Diagnose Manually:
✗ ACL errors often buried in verbose Kafka logs
✗ Multiple log sources: application logs, Kafka broker logs, Confluent Control Center
✗ Requires understanding complex permission hierarchies and principal mappings
✗ Easy to miss the specific topic/operation causing the denial
✗ Time-consuming to trace which ACL rule is blocking access
Watch Hawkeye:
✅ Automatically detect producer authorization failures
✅ Parse Kafka broker logs to identify specific ACL denials
✅ Map failed operations to exact topics and principals
✅ Correlate application errors with Kafka security configurations
✅ Identify missing or misconfigured ACL rules
✅ Provide step-by-step remediation with exact kafka-acls commands
See how Hawkeye processes Confluent logs programmatically to pinpoint ACL issues and delivers actionable solutions instead of generic troubleshooting advice.
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