Envoy 1.13 provides Kafka broker-level filter, that allows us to collect the request/response metric for a given broker. The filter decodes the received requests/responses, and updates the correct metrics — this way we can find out how many requests were received by given broker, how many responses were sent, and how much time was spent for processing. In this short article I will be covering two
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