Kafka Adds Excessive Ops Overhead for Single-Sink Telemetry Pipelines
Engineers routing OTel data to ClickHouse via Kafka inherit full cluster management overhead—broker health, partition rebalancing, consumer lag monitoring—when a simpler batching layer would suffice. The tradeoff is justified only when Kafka serves multiple independent consumers. A focused technical discussion, not a direct problem statement.
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