# Great Intro to Kafka Benchmarking

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Benchmarking and performance testing is an important first step when getting started with Apache Kafka. Sunil Kumar Behera from Confluent presented his Kafka Benchmarking 101 presentation at a meetup earlier this week.

In his presentation Sunil covers:

- the tools that are available to perform benchmark tests on our Kafka clusters
- the metrics to watch for both producers and consumer
- config variables to tweak to get the results we are looking for

@alice.richardson has posted the meetup video over in #Events. Check it out!

> [@RECORDING AVAILABLE - 101: Kafka Benchmarking](https://forum.confluent.io/t/recording-available-101-kafka-benchmarking/3344):
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> spiral_calendar When : 10 November 2021speaking_head Speaker(s) : Sunil Kumar Beheranotebook_with_decorative_cover Talk(s) : 101: Kafka Benchmarking A Kafka setup is mostly designed around use-cases that require both fast and predictable delivery of data, which mostly revolves around meeting the latencies or throughput requirement. This talk is mostly discussing the Kafka end-to-end latency, getting started with the perf-test tool the right way and best practices. vhs Find more…