EFAK Installation

EFKA：https://www.kafka-eagle.org

Preface

EFAK (Eagle For Apache Kafka, previously known as Kafka Eagle). This topic provides a high-level look at EFAK, the EFAK process, and EFAK features. It’s a good place to start if you want to learn more about EFAK software.
EFAK is open source visualization and management software. It allows you to query, visualize, alert on, and explore your metrics no matter where they are stored. In plain English, it provides you with tools to turn your kafka cluster data into beautiful graphs and visualizations.

Requirements

To run EFAK, you must have a supported operating system, hardware that meets or exceeds minimum requirements, a supported database, and a supported browser.
The following operating systems are supported for EFAK installation:

• Linux
• macOS
• Windows

Hardware recommendations

EFAK does not use a lot of resources and is very lightweight in use of memory and CPU.

• Minimum recommended memory: 2048 MB
• Minimum recommended CPU: 1
  Some features might require more memory or CPUs. Features require more resources include:
• Server side rendering of images
• Alerting
• Scheduler

Supported databases

EFAK requires a database to store its configuration data, such as users, data sources, and dashboards. The exact requirements depend on the size of the EFAK installation and features used.
EFAK supports the following databases:

• MySQL
• SQLite
  By default, EFAK installs with and uses SQLite, which is an embedded database stored in the EFAK installation location.

Support web browers

EFAK is supported in the current version of the following browsers. Older versions of these browsers might not be supported, so you should always upgrade to the latest version when using EFAK:

• Chrome/Chromium
• Firefox
• Safari
• Microsoft Edge
• Internet Explorer 11

Install Steps

The following installation steps assume that:
1. Java is already installed and environment variables are configured
2. MySQL database has been installed
Click on the link to download EFAK: Kafka-eagle download

Decompress

tar -zxvf kafka-eagle-bin-3.0.1.tar.gz

The decompress EFAK directory

Decompress efak-web-3.0.1-bin.tar.gz

tar -zxvf efak-web-3.0.1-bin.tar.gz

Modify the system-config.properties configuration file in the efake-web-3.0.1 directory. Here, in order to preserve the original configuration file, a new file is copied directly for modification
fedora install mysql reference: How to install mysql in Fedora

mv  system-config.properties   system-config.properties.bak
cp  system-config.properties.bak  system-config.properties

Modify the following information to

efak.zk.cluster.alias=testbi-cluster 
cluster1.zk.list=192.168.231.128:2181

Configurating EFAK environment variables

sudo vim ~/.bashrc
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export KE_HOME=/software/kafka-eagle-bin-3.0.1/efak-web-3.0.1/ 
export PATH=$PATH:$KE_HOME/bin
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source ~/.bashrc

Note: When configuring EFAK environment variables, the name of the HOME configuration item must be KE_HOME otherwise an error will be reported on subsequent startup.
[2023-02-27 18:22:26] Error: The KE_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly.
[2023-02-27 18:22:26] Error: This environment variable is needed to run this program.

Launch EFAK

./ke.sh start

If the following message and image appears then the start-up was successful:

Go to link address:

Default initial username and password:
username: admin
password: 123456

Log in and we can see: