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Topic-Level Kafka Cost Attribution with Prometheus
“Which topic is costing us?” is the question every platform team gets, and nobody can answer it cleanly. SaaS providers bill you at the cluster level. Your finance team wants a line item per team. Your product managers want to know if their pipeline is the expensive one. You have a Kafka cluster, a bill, and no bridge between them.
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I’ve spent 17 years building streaming platforms, integration systems, and open-source tooling. A lot of what I’ve learned lives in conference slides, GitHub repos, and conversations that are hard to find again. This blog is where I put it all in one place.